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

[John Clizbe]

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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

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