>> What do you think about redefining dirnode URI's to not contain the >> "pb://" characters? And likewise for other slashes in our URIs, so >> that users of the URIs can treat them as opaque strings that don't >> need to be examined or manipulated. BTW, I've created ticket #102 for this issue: http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/102 cheers, -Brian