Re: Remove URN support for 3.2 or 3.3?

From: Kinkie <gkinkie_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 23:26:59 +0100

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Henrik Nordstrom
<henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> tor 2009-02-05 klockan 15:13 +0100 skrev Kinkie:
>> while working on string-fix I stumbled upon urn support code.
>> There's quite a lot of it, but.. is anyone actually using it?
>> URNs are a very nice idea, but it never really took off, and AFAIK
>> it's not being used anymore.
>
> As far as I know there is no one using the URN code.
>
> I vote for removal in 3.2 rather than spending time on fixing up the
> code, as long as urn: URIs is understood and can be forwarded to peers.
>
> Ideally we should in be able to forward pretty much any kind of URI to
> peers, not limited to URLs.

I've opened a Feature wiki page for this effort.

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    /kinkie
Received on Sun Feb 08 2009 - 22:27:09 MST

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