[dcc2] MultiFile Transfer Headers

Ben Damm bdamm-dcc2 at dammfine.com
Fri Apr 30 14:24:21 EDT 2004


On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:29:09PM -0400, Dave Johnson wrote:
> I would also say ditch the permissions part, it's just too messy and
> will lead to problems.  If permissions or complicated trees are
> important to a user, sending an archived file is better.

Agreed here.  As an implementation note, I think files should follow the
e-mail model and be 100% private by default.

> Created can go, but a modified timestamp would be good, however what
> format should it be in? iso-8601? rfc-822? something else?

How about seconds since epoch (Jan 1, 1970 GMT)?

-Ben



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