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| author | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2004-11-27 05:23:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2004-11-27 05:23:59 +0000 |
| commit | 7c81603f3ab4c89a130557cd94852ba2193e9c74 (patch) | |
| tree | 1caad501737b0439ddaa6f87561e692a5a23ded9 /doc/tor-spec.txt | |
| parent | e5e45fe980b0b45004cc7a32d7896a9b2f1ff6e3 (diff) | |
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document directory interaction a bit better
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diff --git a/doc/tor-spec.txt b/doc/tor-spec.txt index 9d180b4405..0f5c212395 100644 --- a/doc/tor-spec.txt +++ b/doc/tor-spec.txt @@ -802,6 +802,20 @@ entries. lists nodes that are connected currently speaks http on a socket, spits out directory on request +Directory servers listen on a certain port (the DirPort), and speak a +limited version of HTTP 1.0. Clients send either GET or POST commands. +The basic interactions are: + "%s %s HTTP/1.0\r\nContent-Length: %lu\r\nHost: %s\r\n\r\n", + command, url, content-length, host. + Get "/tor/" to fetch a full directory. + Get "/tor/dir.z" to fetch a compressed full directory. + Get "/tor/running-routers" to fetch a network-status descriptor. + Post "/tor/" to post a server descriptor, with the body of the + request containing the descriptor. + + "host" is used to specify the address:port of the dirserver, so + the request can survive going through http proxies. + A.1. Differences between spec and implementation - The current specification requires all ORs to have IPv4 addresses, but |