Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message

2013-06-20 Thread Turkey Breast
bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message If you want to criticise the Bitcoin protocol for sloppyness, the variable length of some messages isn't where I'd start. Note that ping

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message

2013-06-20 Thread Mike Hearn
bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:20 PM *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message If you want to criticise the Bitcoin protocol for sloppyness, the variable length of some messages isn't where I'd start. Note that ping has

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message

2013-06-20 Thread Addy Yeow
:* Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:20 PM *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message If you want to criticise the Bitcoin protocol for sloppyness, the variable length of some messages isn't where I'd start. Note that ping has the same issue, its length has changed over

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message

2013-06-19 Thread Turkey Breast
turkeybre...@yahoo.com Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message It has to be optional because old clients don't send it, obviously. Why

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message

2013-06-19 Thread Mike Hearn
@lists.sourceforge.net *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:39 AM *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message It has to be optional because old clients don't send it, obviously. Why is this even an issue? There's no problem with variable length messages in any codebase that I'm

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message

2013-06-19 Thread Mike Hearn
: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message It's not a bug (although there was recently a change to make bitcoind/qt always send this field anyway). I don't know where Amir is going with BIP 60. Version messages have always been variable length. There's nothing inherent

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message

2013-06-19 Thread Paul Lyon
-development@lists.sourceforge.net bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message It has to be optional because old clients don't send it, obviously. Why is this even an issue

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message

2013-06-18 Thread Mike Hearn
It's not a bug (although there was recently a change to make bitcoind/qt always send this field anyway). I don't know where Amir is going with BIP 60. Version messages have always been variable length. There's nothing inherent in the Bitcoin protocol that says all messages are fixed length,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message

2013-06-18 Thread Turkey Breast
needs to be optional anyway. From: Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net To: Turkey Breast turkeybre...@yahoo.com Cc: Bitcoin Dev bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:48 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version