From: Brian Warner Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:02:50 +0000 (-0700) Subject: URI-extension.txt: update docs, we aren't using bencode for this. X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-0.4.0~57 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/pf/content/en/footer/about.html?a=commitdiff_plain;h=466083700fbbe44e70295181e1e61cd8718c445a;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git URI-extension.txt: update docs, we aren't using bencode for this. --- diff --git a/docs/URI-extension.txt b/docs/URI-extension.txt index e8d47aa8..8ec383e0 100644 --- a/docs/URI-extension.txt +++ b/docs/URI-extension.txt @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ "URI Extension Block" -This block is a bencoded dictionary. All buckets hold an identical copy. The -hash of the serialized data is kept in the URI. +This block is a serialized dictionary with string keys and string values +(some of which represent numbers, some of which are SHA-256 hashes). All +buckets hold an identical copy. The hash of the serialized data is kept in +the URI. The download process must obtain a valid copy of this data before any decoding can take place. The download process must also obtain other data