Re: [Sks-devel] 1.0.8 patches

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:59:06PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, David Shaw wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 208: if the key is thought to be revoked, put an 'r' in the
> >      pub flags field.
> 
> > The change in 209 does not match the MR spec, but if showing uat
> > records is generally thought to be useful, I can add it to the spec.
> > I'm not sure that anyone receiving a MR listing would care if a uat
> > exists, but I guess the program could note something like "this key
> > also has a photo ID" or the like.
> 
> What it did before was print some binary stuff to the client:
> 
> http://pgpkeys.telering.at/pks/lookup?search=0x21DB31C5&options=mr
> vs.
> http://keyserver.noreply.org/pks/lookup?search=0x21DB31C5&options=mr
> 
> It you think that not printing anything at all is the proper action,
> that should be no problem at all.

Certainly printing the binary stuff was bad.  I don't have a strong
feeling on whether the best thing to do is to print nothing, or to
invent a 'uat' record and use it.  Certainly if we need a uat record
in the future it is easy enough to add it then.  Or we can add it now.

David