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Posted Aug 26, 2007 18:43 UTC (Sun) by JohnNilsson (subscriber, #41242)
In reply to: Link Fingerprints by rfunk
Parent article: Google Summer of Code: Mozilla Projects

Why not just add a new scheme type for hash based data identifires

hash:[<hashtype>:]<hashcode>[@<uri>]

where @<uri> identifies a way to fetch the resource. If it is omitted the client could instead query any DHT.


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Posted Aug 26, 2007 22:50 UTC (Sun) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Because that's not backward compatible. A browser that doesn't know how to check the hash won't be able to open the link.

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