Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of Extensions

Timestamp:

2009-01-14T23:46:40Z (16 years ago)

Author:

warner

Comment:

update notes

Extensions

@@ -16 +16 @@
 Tahoe URIs may refer to either immutable or mutable content.  URIs for immutable data are simple to cache by mapping the URI to the contents.
 
-Mutability is independent of read-only capabilities.  A read-only capability may refer to mutable content.
+Mutability is independent of read-only capabilities.  A read-only capability may refer to mutable content (i.e. *you* can't write to it, but somebody else might be able to).
 
 To determine the mutability of a URI, parse the second field of the URI (delimited by ':'):
@@ -22 +22 @@
  * URI:CHK:...    : immutable
  * URI:LIT:...    : immutable
+ * URI:SSK:...    : mutable, writable
+ * URI:SSK-RO:... : mutable, not writable
  * URI:DIR:...    : mutable, writable
  * URI:DIR-RO:... : mutable, not writable
 
-Note: Currently all files are immutable, and all directories are mutable, but in the future the node type (file or directory) and the mutability will be independent.  It's a bad idea to rely on the node type to determine mutability.
+Note: Currently most files are immutable, and all directories are mutable, but in the future the node type (file or directory) and the mutability will be independent.  It's a bad idea to rely on the node type to determine mutability.
 
 
@@ -35 +37 @@
  * The following clients are known to support all methods:
    * [http://curl.haxx.se/ curl] is an open source client which supports arbitrary methods with the '-X' option.
+   * Python 2.5's stdlib modules ({{{httplib}}}, {{{urllib}}}) provide good support for arbitrary methods.
  * The following clients do not seem to support either {{{PUT}}} and {{{DELETE}}}:
    * ...
  * We have not yet determined if the following have support for arbitrary methods:
-   * Common web browsers.
-   * Python 2.5's stdlib:
-     * {{{httplib}}}
-     * {{{urllib}}}
+   * Common web browsers. In general, HTML forms can only cause GET and POST operations. Javascript might have more abilities.
 
 === Race Conditions ===