Re: [Sks-devel] SKS, Content-Length and HEAD requests

[John Clizbe]

John Clizbe wrote:
> Jonathan Oxer wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 13:20 -0400, Phil Pennock wrote:
> 
>> Phil's suggestion of a limit variable seems good, but there's also a
>> third option that may be worth considering: a command specifically to
>> retrieve metadata about a query result without retrieving the result
>> itself. There could be a command issued as a GET request in the same
>> format as a regular search, but rather than returning the result it
>> would return things like the number of results and the content length of
>> the full result set in a machine-parsable format. Or it could just be an
>> argument appended to the regular search.
> 
> I believe that's already implemented
> 
> http://keyserver.gingerbear.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=clizbe&fingerprint=on&op=index
> 
> and
> 
> http://keyserver.gingerbear.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=clizbe&fingerprint=on&op=vindex
> 
> -John


Oooops add &options=mr to each of those

s/implemented/mostly implemented/


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