"Garb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> You are right - that certainly seems to be exactly what I am looking for (if
> we exclude J.Lo's private phone number...). But where is that information
> actually located? It is not in the HTML-source of the page. Could it be in a
> special file with a name that FIW can somehow deduce from the URI of the
> main page?

In Freenet there is no such thing as a "file" (surely, in your
datastore there are files, but there needn't be. E.g. Freenet 0.4 used
one large file as datastore). Every key in Freenet can have 2
different portions of data. Metadata and Raw Data. While tools like
FProxy and FUQID usually show raw data to you (since metadata is for
internal purpose) that does not mean there is no metadata saved.

Another example: In modern OSes (including Windows NT, 2k, XP) you can
add "file permissions" to a file. They are not saved inside that file
(you'll notice that when you look inside before and after you edit it)
and they are not saved in some "special" file either - they are simply
saved in the file system (where file names are saved as well). Or, on
XP, you can even assign "real" metadata to a file, like an author
name, which will not end up inside that file. (If you copy that file
onto a CD-ROM or floppy disk and then copy it back, the author entry
will disappear).

And similar to these kinds of metadata in file systems, Freenet has
things like that as well - it is just used for different purposes.

If that helps you, just think of two "files" behind every freenet key
- one for metadata and one for data. (Actually this is wrong, since
both metadata and data of one key will always be saved on the same
Freenet node, while two different keys don't need to)

Michael

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