Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages

2012-04-13 Thread Wladimir
I don't understand why you say my proposal would make the protocol more stateful. I think it doesn't. Each reply is only the result of the current request only, and there is no new session information. I also wondered this. My first thought was that it's basically the same as the PING

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages

2012-04-12 Thread Gavin Andresen
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Christian Bodt sirk...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to discuss the following bitcoin protocol improvement proposal:          Adding request/reply id in all messages (in the message header, based on what was done for the checksum field) That seems like a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages

2012-04-12 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:41:05AM -0400, Gavin Andresen wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Christian Bodt sirk...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to discuss the following bitcoin protocol improvement proposal:          Adding request/reply id in all messages (in the message header,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages

2012-04-12 Thread Amir Taaki
, 2012 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:41:05AM -0400, Gavin Andresen wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Christian Bodt sirk...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to discuss the following bitcoin protocol improvement

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages

2012-04-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Christian Bodt sirk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to discuss the following bitcoin protocol improvement proposal:          Adding request/reply id in all messages (in the message header, based on what was done for the checksum field) The original

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages

2012-04-12 Thread Amir Taaki
: [Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Christian Bodt sirk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to discuss the following bitcoin protocol improvement proposal:          Adding request/reply id in all messages (in the message header, based

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages

2012-04-12 Thread Peter Vessenes
be better if there was no state whatsoever. From: Jeff Garzik jgar...@exmulti.com To: sirk...@gmail.com Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages

2012-04-12 Thread Christian Bodt
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Amir Taaki zgen...@yahoo.com wrote: Jeff elaborated the problems very well, but I just want to add this: Your change is essentially relying (trusting) the server to track a piece of information (your state). No, it is more about distinguishing between

[Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages

2012-04-11 Thread Christian Bodt
Hi, I would like to discuss the following bitcoin protocol improvement proposal: Adding request/reply id in all messages (in the message header, based on what was done for the checksum field) The original reason is that I found it very hard to implement robust blockchain downloading as