[or-cvs] Clarify server/d/<D>.z description

Peter Palfrader weasel at seul.org
Wed Mar 8 00:10:03 UTC 2006


Update of /home/or/cvsroot/tor/doc
In directory moria:/tmp/cvs-serv8192

Modified Files:
	dir-spec.txt 
Log Message:
Clarify server/d/<D>.z description
Spell out that fingerprints in requests should use capital A-F letters for their hex

Index: dir-spec.txt
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RCS file: /home/or/cvsroot/tor/doc/dir-spec.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.37
retrieving revision 1.38
diff -u -p -d -r1.37 -r1.38
--- dir-spec.txt	9 Feb 2006 03:44:49 -0000	1.37
+++ dir-spec.txt	8 Mar 2006 00:10:01 -0000	1.38
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ $Id$
    provide a unique descriptor to a client, and thereby partition that client
    from the rest of the network.)
 
-   The descriptor for a server whose digest (in hex) is <D> should be
+   The server descriptor with (descriptor) digest <D> (in hex) should be
    available at:
       http://<hostname>/tor/server/d/<D>.z
 
@@ -345,6 +345,10 @@ $Id$
    Directory servers MAY generate either format: the former requires less
    CPU, but the latter requires less bandwidth.
 
+   Clients SHOULD use upper case letters (A-F) when base16-encoding
+   fingerprints.  Servers MUST accept both upper and lower case fingerprints
+   in requests.
+
 5. Client operation: downloading information
 
    Every Tor that is not a directory server (that is, clients and ORs that do



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