commit 804a1c36a8be630fa4568da55622755e9da12d22 Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Tue Jul 16 09:36:40 2013 -0700
Removing '/tor/micro/all' from the dir-spec
The dir-spec describes a dirport method for retrieving all microdescriptors. While this is a fine idea it was never implemented. Moving the spec portion that describes this to the attic for now.
https://trac.torproject.org/9271 --- attic/unimplemented_dirspec.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ dir-spec.txt | 8 -------- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/attic/unimplemented_dirspec.txt b/attic/unimplemented_dirspec.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f171398 --- /dev/null +++ b/attic/unimplemented_dirspec.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +The following contains portions of the dir-spec that were not implemented in +tor. They're still fine ideas, but do not belong in the specs before they... +well, exist. + +Dirport Methods, Section 4.5 (https://trac.torproject.org/9271) + + All the microdescriptors from the current consensus should also be + available at: + http://<hostname>/tor/micro/all[.z] + so a client that's bootstrapping doesn't need to send a 70KB URL just + to name every microdescriptor it's looking for. + [Note that /tor/micro/all[.z] is not implemented as of February 21, + 2012. -KL] + + diff --git a/dir-spec.txt b/dir-spec.txt index 2b4a8d8..dd25bfb 100644 --- a/dir-spec.txt +++ b/dir-spec.txt @@ -2500,14 +2500,6 @@ instead of +s to separate items, since the + character is used in base64 encoding.
- All the microdescriptors from the current consensus should also be - available at: - http://<hostname>/tor/micro/all[.z] - so a client that's bootstrapping doesn't need to send a 70KB URL just - to name every microdescriptor it's looking for. - [Note that /tor/micro/all[.z] is not implemented as of February 21, - 2012. -KL] - Directory mirrors should check to make sure that the microdescriptors they're about to serve match the right hashes (either the hashes from the fetch URL or the hashes from the consensus, respectively).