Re: Dropping non-machine readable

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 01:14:27PM -0400, Jason Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 09:54:39AM -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> 
> > number of times).  To resolve this, back in 2002 I added the "MR"
> > machine readable output to PKSD, then Yaron Minsky added it to SKS,
> > and Jonathan McDowell added it to ONAK.  There may be other HKP-like
> > servers that support it as well.
> 
> Indeed, there is also some variation among these implementations.

I've noticed some variation in that not every implementation handles
the optional stuff in the same way.  Were you referring to something
else?

> > A quick glance at the servers in the subkeys.pgp.net rotation shows
> > that all but one of the servers currently support MR.  Same thing for
> > the wwwkeys.pgp.net rotation (the same server doesn't support MR in
> > both rotations).  pgp.mit.edu supports MR.
> 
> Please try hkp://keyserver.kjsl.com and let me know of any problems.
> I replace ':' and '%' with '+' instead of escaping them and dealing
> with string expansion, and if you ask for a vindex, you'll get some
> blend of mr and non-mr output, but neither seem to affect GPG 1.4.1.

So far so good.  Excellent.

No real harm from the GPG perspective by replacing characters (GPG
doesn't know or care if you change the user ID string), but you might
confuse some users of your keyserver when they expect one thing but
get another.  The ICQ people tend to expect stuff like "ICQ:12345" and
not "ICQ+12345".

David