[Mldonkey-users] Re: adding MLdonkey 2.4. to the application list

[b8_bavard]

Anybody interested in improving the WEB interface of MLdonkey ? It
could be interesting to be able to get more information on files from
bitzi, using the SHA1 identifier when provided for a result (as
explained at the end of the forwarded mail...)

Gordon Mohr (from bitzi.com) wrote:

>  FYI, MLDonkey is now listed with icon among all of our Bitzi-enabled 
>  application lists.
>  
>  b8_bavard writes:
>  > First, what services can be used except the search engine and the
>  > links ?  Is there an interface to send file links and retrieve more
>  > information on the file?
>  
>  The first/easiest thing to use is our "/lookup/" web service. 
>  You can supply a SHA1 hash on a URL-line, and if we have an
>  entry for that file, we'll return that web page. You can also
>  request an XML document of our records for that file, so 
>  that you could style the metadata however you'd like in your
>  own UI. 
>  
>  There's also "ed2k:" and "sig2dat:" lookup options in the works,
>  but we haven't stabilized the API and documented it yet.
>  
>  For more details, see:
>  
>     http://bitzi.com/developer/
>  
>  
>  > is-it what bitcollider use ? 
>  
>  Bitcollider actually uses another interface, where info is HTTP 
>  POSTed (in case we don't have it already), and then that info
>  is either user-confirmed (if new) or they're shunted over to 
>  a regular lookup URL. 
>  
>  > Is this
>  > interface secured in some way ? (ie are the results verified, for
>  > example by being published only if they are sent by more than 3 users ?)
>  
>  There are a number of ways that users can up-rate good files 
>  (and good descriptive info) and down-rate bad info/bad files. 
>  People have to be registered users to vote, and it's 
>  against ou user policies to post misleading info, but we don't 
>  require any real-life identifying info from people.
>  
>  We've had more of a problem with people casting confused votes
>  (eg whether they personally "like" the content rather than
>  whether the file is high-quality) than with intentionally
>  spamming/misleading votes. We'll adopt other policies when necessary
>  if junk becomes a problem. 
>  
>  > MLdonkey can use:
>  > 1) ed2k and magnet links, and soon fasttrack links (at least until
>  > they change the encryption algorithm).
>  > 2) it has a link to bitzi in its WEB interface
>  > 
>  > Can we do more ?
>  
>  I think the offering the lookup HTML web service -- as a way to 
>  check search results before starting a download, or a download in
>  progress, or a file already local -- would be the easiest next step.
>  
>  Thanks for integrating Bitzi into your project... let me know if
>  you have any other questions!
>  
>  - Gordon
>  ____________________   
>  Gordon Mohr <gojomo@ . . . At Bitzi, people cooperate to identify, rate,
>  bitzi.com> Bitzi CTO . . . describe and discover files of every kind. 
>  _ http://bitzi.com _ . . . Bitzi knows bits -- because you teach it!

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- b8_bavard (mldonkey)
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