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

[Johan van Selst]

Phil Pennock wrote:
> The HKP protocol accepts various options and modifier variables.  Why
> not a "limit" variable which takes a positive integer?
>   * if there are at most $limit matches, return them
>   * if the limit option is present, in all cases add an
>     X-HKP-Results-Count: header, which says how many results were
>     present

Sounds good. I have written a proof-of-concept patch that does this
(now running at keyserver.stack.nl). Note that I'm no sks committer and
not even an OCaml programmer. Maybe somebody who knows his way around
the source better than I could review this and decide if it makes sense
to add this to sks.


Regards,
Johan

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