Hi Daniel,

Perhaps it'd be sensible to always add a reference to the desired retention
policy - also for temporary slots. Perhaps the server should answer with
the applied policy too?

Regards,

  Guus

On 8 September 2017 at 10:58, Daniel Gultsch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> when I first came up with HTTP Upload it was intended to also provide
> storage space for avatars and other permanent and public information.
> The introduction even mentions this.
>
> However most servers currently have rather low retention periods of 10
> days or 30 days (which is fair). Uploading an avatar for example under
> those conditions however isn't very feasible.
>
> That's why I propose to add the ability to optionally request slots
> that are permanent.
> Those permanent slots would have multiple types (avatar,...) and would
> always overwrite each other.
>
> Syntax would probably look something like this.
>
> <request size="1234" filename="me.png"><permanent type="avatar"/></request>
>
> But I have a few questions:
>
> Do you think these types should be registered?
> Should we use types at all? Or rather have some other limitation on
> permanent slots? (Like user can only have 10? And old ones will always
> be overwritten)
>
> cheers
> Daniel
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