Re: suggestion for bitorrent: auto updates of DLs

--- In [email protected], Olaf van der Spek <OvdSpek@L...>
wrote:
> Mike Ravkine wrote:
> > You can't "sort by hash" because individual files are not hashed.
> > 
> > They are however sorted by path/filename for consistency.
> 
> That's what Brian said already.
> But what part of the specs specifies this sort step?
> 
> http://bittorrent.com/protocol.html

It is specified in the protocol, keys in any dictionary must be
sorted:
"Dictionaries are encoded as a 'd' followed by a list of alternating
keys and their corresponding values followed by an 'e'. For example,
d3:cow3:moo4:spam4:eggse corresponds to {'cow': 'moo', 'spam': 'eggs'}
and d4:spaml1:a1:bee corresponds to {'spam': ['a', 'b']} . Keys must
be strings and appear in sorted order (sorted as raw strings,
not
alphanumerics)."

> > 
> > --kRYPT
> > 
> > Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Brian Dessent wrote:
> >> 
> >>
> >>
> >>>Even if you're talking about just adding new files and not
modifying
> >>>existing ones, it doesn't really fit in with BT.  The way it
works now
> >>>is that the list of files is sorted by path/filename and then the
hashes
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>
> >>Is that how it works? I didn't know about the sort and have never
seen it.
> >> 





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