specify that alice and bob can use dirty circuits when

uploading or fetching hidserv descriptors


svn:r1416

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/rend-spec.txt b/doc/rend-spec.txt
index 5dfbbd75d9..5a1ef49a9e 100644
--- a/doc/rend-spec.txt
+++ b/doc/rend-spec.txt
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ Tor Rendezvous Spec
 1.4. Bob's OP advertises his server descriptor
 
    Bob's OP opens a stream to each directory server's directory port via Tor.
+   (He may re-use old circuits for this.)
    Over this stream, Bob's OP makes an HTTP 'POST' request, to the URL
    '/rendezvous/publish' (relative to the directory server's root),
    containing as its body Bob's service descriptor.  Upon receiving a
@@ -188,9 +189,10 @@ Tor Rendezvous Spec
 
    Alice opens a stream to a directory server via Tor, and makes an HTTP GET
    request for the document '/rendezvous/<y>', where '<y> is replaced with the
-   encoding of Bob's public key as described above.  The directory replies
-   with a 404 HTTP response if it does not recognize <y>, and otherwise
-   returns Bob's most recently uploaded service descriptor.
+   encoding of Bob's public key as described above. (She may re-use old
+   circuits for this.) The directory replies with a 404 HTTP response if
+   it does not recognize <y>, and otherwise returns Bob's most recently
+   uploaded service descriptor.
 
    If Alice's OP receives a 404 response, it tries the other directory
    servers, and only fails the lookup if none recognizes the public key hash.