Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > Justin Karneges wrote: >> On Friday 07 November 2008 08:34:07 Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >>> Right, so the question is not "what format is sent over the wire?" (as >>> we can see that's the fancy encoding to save space and indicate the >>> length of each key-value pair) but "what is the format that an entity >>> publishes to the mdns address?" (and that might be a text-based notation >>> with each key-value pair contained within quotes). In any case, I think >>> that what's currently in XEP-0174 is wrong because you don't publish one >>> TXT record for each key-value pair, instead you publish a single TXT >>> record that contains all of the key-value pairs. >> Correct. A single TXT record contains all the strings. >> >>> So that means you publish something like this (it would be all one "line" >>> in DNS but I can't show that in email): >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] IN TXT "txtvers=1" "1st=Juliet" >>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "hash=sha-1" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >>> "last=Capulet" "msg=Hanging out downtown" "nick=JuliC" >>> "node=http://www.adiumx.com"; >>> "phsh=a3839614e1a382bcfebbcf20464f519e81770813" "port.p2pj=5562" >>> "status=avail" "vc=CA!" "ver=QgayPKawpkPSDYmwT/WM94uAlu0=" >>> >>> Yes, no, maybe? >> Yes. > > Right. I will confirm this understanding with the DNS-SD experts and > then modify the XEP accordingly.
I've talked about this with some of the DNS-SD folks, and yes the binary format is sent over the wire, whereas the texty format with multiple key-value pairs in a single TXT record value is the kind of thing that you would specify in, say, a BIND zone file. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
