Re: [Help-gnunet] A couple ease of use suggestions

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Friday 13 September 2002 01:44 pm, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> The list has gotten quiet again. :)

People are probably using all their bandwidth to catch up with the rate at 
which CVS updates are being commited :-)

> After I got tired of typing out those long gnunet-download lines I hacked
> my gnunet-search to display search results in the form of:
>
> gnunet-download -o "filename" hash key size etc.
>
> That way I can just cut and paste the search result of what I want to
> retrieve straight to the command line.

Sounds like a good idea. We'll do this for 0.4.9.

> Another nice thing would be for gnunet-download to supply the filename
> itself. It's in the metadata for the file so it should be able to do that,
> right?

No, it's in the metadata that gnunet-search retrieved, but that's not what
gnunet-download gets (which is only what you give on the command line). 
gnunet-download never sees any meta-data except what you specify. gnunet-gtk 
can choose the filename automagically since it has the full meta-data from 
gnunet-search, and not just CRC/size/hash. 

> I was thinking about the stale search results problem. Perhaps we could
> timestamp the search results when they are inserted into the network and
> clients could be configured to ignore any info older than a certain amount
> of time?

That will not help. Malicious parties could always just manipulate timestamps, 
very old content could be extremely available (can you say 'GPL'?) and very 
recent content may not be there at all (node goes off-line). 

Christian
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