[tahoe-dev] help: how should you tell a web browser what name to use for a file?

zooko zooko at zooko.com
Wed May 14 19:07:46 UTC 2008


On May 14, 2008, at 12:59 PM, Brian Warner wrote:

>  2: /cap/(FILECAP|DIRCAP+PATH)/$MAGIC/FILENAME
...
>     2b: $MAGIC = "@@name="
...

> If we go with #2, then whatever value we pick for $MAGIC must be  
> removed from
> the list of child names that you're allowed to use in your Tahoe  
> directories,

I proposed

1b: /named/$FILECAP/$MAGIC/FILENAME

where MAGIC="@@name="

You are not allowed to do it with DIRCAP+PATH, only with FILECAP, and  
you *are* allowed to have children named "@@name=" in your Tahoe  
filesystem.

I want 1b more than 1, because it makes it clear to a user who looks  
at only the end of a URL (like me) that "welcome.txt" is web-browser- 
name, not a Tahoe filesystem name.

How does that sound?

Regards,

Zooko




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