* [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
@ 2013-06-18 17:45 Turkey Breast
2013-06-18 19:48 ` Mike Hearn
0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Turkey Breast @ 2013-06-18 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bitcoin Dev
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See this BIP. I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but it would be good if messages always had a fixed number of fields per protocol version.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0060#Code_Updates
This BIP details everything that needs to be done and proposes a protocol upgrade.
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* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
2013-06-18 17:45 [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message Turkey Breast
@ 2013-06-18 19:48 ` Mike Hearn
2013-06-18 22:30 ` Turkey Breast
0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Mike Hearn @ 2013-06-18 19:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Turkey Breast; +Cc: Bitcoin Dev
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It's not a bug (although there was recently a change to make bitcoind/qt
always send this field anyway).
I don't know where Amir is going with BIP 60. Version messages have always
been variable length. There's nothing inherent in the Bitcoin protocol that
says all messages are fixed length, indeed, tx messages are allowed to have
arbitrary data appended after them that gets relayed.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
> See this BIP. I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but it would be good
> if messages always had a fixed number of fields per protocol version.
>
> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0060#Code_Updates
>
> This BIP details everything that needs to be done and proposes a protocol
> upgrade.
>
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* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
2013-06-18 19:48 ` Mike Hearn
@ 2013-06-18 22:30 ` Turkey Breast
2013-06-19 9:39 ` Mike Hearn
0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Turkey Breast @ 2013-06-18 22:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bitcoin-development
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That's me. I never said to make all messages fixed length. I said to make a fixed number of fields per protocol. So given a protocol version number, you know the number of fields in a message. This is not only easier for parsing messages, but just good practice. I don't see why a 1 byte flag needs to be optional anyway.
________________________________
From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
It's not a bug (although there was recently a change to make bitcoind/qt always send this field anyway).
I don't know where Amir is going with BIP 60. Version messages have always been variable length. There's nothing inherent in the Bitcoin protocol that says all messages are fixed length, indeed, tx messages are allowed to have arbitrary data appended after them that gets relayed.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com> wrote:
See this BIP. I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but it would be good if messages always had a fixed number of fields per protocol version.
>
>
>https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0060#Code_Updates
>
>
>This BIP details everything that needs to be done and proposes a protocol upgrade.
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* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
2013-06-18 22:30 ` Turkey Breast
@ 2013-06-19 9:39 ` Mike Hearn
2013-06-19 10:33 ` Turkey Breast
0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Mike Hearn @ 2013-06-19 9:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Turkey Breast; +Cc: bitcoin-development
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It has to be optional because old clients don't send it, obviously.
Why is this even an issue? There's no problem with variable length messages
in any codebase that I'm aware of. Is this solving some actual problem?
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
> That's me. I never said to make all messages fixed length. I said to make
> a fixed number of fields per protocol. So given a protocol version number,
> you know the number of fields in a message. This is not only easier for
> parsing messages, but just good practice. I don't see why a 1 byte flag
> needs to be optional anyway.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
> *To:* Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:48 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
>
> It's not a bug (although there was recently a change to make bitcoind/qt
> always send this field anyway).
>
> I don't know where Amir is going with BIP 60. Version messages have always
> been variable length. There's nothing inherent in the Bitcoin protocol that
> says all messages are fixed length, indeed, tx messages are allowed to have
> arbitrary data appended after them that gets relayed.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> See this BIP. I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but it would be good
> if messages always had a fixed number of fields per protocol version.
>
> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0060#Code_Updates
>
> This BIP details everything that needs to be done and proposes a protocol
> upgrade.
>
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* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
2013-06-19 9:39 ` Mike Hearn
@ 2013-06-19 10:33 ` Turkey Breast
2013-06-19 10:43 ` Mike Hearn
0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Turkey Breast @ 2013-06-19 10:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bitcoin-development
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It's a problem if you work with iterators to deserialize the byte stream. Even failing that, it's just sloppy programming. What happens in the future when new fields are added to the version message? It's not a big deal to say that this protocol version has X number of fields, that (higher) protocol version message has X + N number of fields. Deterministic number of fields per protocol version is sensical and how Bitcoin has been for a long time.
And yes, it was a problem for me that caused a lot of confusion why this byte didn't exist in many version messages despite the standard saying it should and the code in bitcoind indicating it should. Nowhere was this written. It doesn't help other implementations to have an unclear behaviour that depends on some magic from one implementation.
________________________________
From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
It has to be optional because old clients don't send it, obviously.
Why is this even an issue? There's no problem with variable length messages in any codebase that I'm aware of. Is this solving some actual problem?
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com> wrote:
That's me. I never said to make all messages fixed length. I said to make a fixed number of fields per protocol. So given a protocol version number, you know the number of fields in a message. This is not only easier for parsing messages, but just good practice. I don't see why a 1 byte flag needs to be optional anyway.
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
> From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
>To: Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
>Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:48 PM
>Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
>
>
>
>It's not a bug (although there was recently a change to make bitcoind/qt always send this field anyway).
>
>
>I don't know where Amir is going with BIP 60. Version messages have always been variable length. There's nothing inherent in the Bitcoin protocol that says all messages are fixed length, indeed, tx messages are allowed to have arbitrary data appended after them that gets relayed.
>
>
>
>On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>See this BIP. I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but it would be good if messages always had a fixed number of fields per protocol version.
>>
>>
>>https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0060#Code_Updates
>>
>>
>>This BIP details everything that needs to be done and proposes a protocol upgrade.
>>
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* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
2013-06-19 10:33 ` Turkey Breast
@ 2013-06-19 10:43 ` Mike Hearn
0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Mike Hearn @ 2013-06-19 10:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Turkey Breast; +Cc: bitcoin-development
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Bitcoin-Qt on master does send it now although it doesn't affect anything,
but as old pre-filtering versions will continue to exist, you'll always
have to be able to deserialize version messages without it.
Bitcoin version messages have always had variable length, look at how the
code is written in main.cpp. If you didn't experience issues until now all
it means is that no sufficiently old nodes were talking to yours.
The standard does not say it should appear. Read it again - BIP 37 says
about the new version message field:
If false then broadcast transactions will not be announced until a
filter{load,add,clear} command is received. *If missing or true*, no change
in protocol behaviour occurs.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
> It's a problem if you work with iterators to deserialize the byte stream.
> Even failing that, it's just sloppy programming. What happens in the future
> when new fields are added to the version message? It's not a big deal to
> say that this protocol version has X number of fields, that (higher)
> protocol version message has X + N number of fields. Deterministic number
> of fields per protocol version is sensical and how Bitcoin has been for a
> long time.
>
> And yes, it was a problem for me that caused a lot of confusion why this
> byte didn't exist in many version messages despite the standard saying it
> should and the code in bitcoind indicating it should. Nowhere was this
> written. It doesn't help other implementations to have an unclear behaviour
> that depends on some magic from one implementation.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
> *To:* Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" <
> bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:39 AM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
>
> It has to be optional because old clients don't send it, obviously.
>
> Why is this even an issue? There's no problem with variable length
> messages in any codebase that I'm aware of. Is this solving some actual
> problem?
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> That's me. I never said to make all messages fixed length. I said to make
> a fixed number of fields per protocol. So given a protocol version number,
> you know the number of fields in a message. This is not only easier for
> parsing messages, but just good practice. I don't see why a 1 byte flag
> needs to be optional anyway.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
> *To:* Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:48 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
>
> It's not a bug (although there was recently a change to make bitcoind/qt
> always send this field anyway).
>
> I don't know where Amir is going with BIP 60. Version messages have always
> been variable length. There's nothing inherent in the Bitcoin protocol that
> says all messages are fixed length, indeed, tx messages are allowed to have
> arbitrary data appended after them that gets relayed.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> See this BIP. I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but it would be good
> if messages always had a fixed number of fields per protocol version.
>
> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0060#Code_Updates
>
> This BIP details everything that needs to be done and proposes a protocol
> upgrade.
>
>
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* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
@ 2013-06-19 13:03 Paul Lyon
2013-06-19 13:20 ` Mike Hearn
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From: Paul Lyon @ 2013-06-19 13:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Turkey Breast, Mike Hearn; +Cc: bitcoin-development
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I’m also running into this exact same issue with my parser, now I understand why the relay field behavior I was seeing doesn’tmatch the wiki.
So to parse a version message, you can’t rely on the protocol version? You have to know how long the payload is, and then parse the message accordingly? I agree with Turkey Breast, this seems a bit sloppy to me.
Paul
P.S. I’ve never used a dev mailing list before and I want to get involved with the Bitcoin dev community, so let me know if I’m horribly violating any mailing list etiquette. 😊
From: Mike Hearn
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:43 AM
To: Turkey Breast
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Bitcoin-Qt on master does send it now although it doesn't affect anything, but as old pre-filtering versions will continue to exist, you'll always have to be able to deserialize version messages without it.
Bitcoin version messages have always had variable length, look at how the code is written in main.cpp. If you didn't experience issues until now all it means is that no sufficiently old nodes were talking to yours.
The standard does not say it should appear. Read it again - BIP 37 says about the new version message field:
If false then broadcast transactions will not be announced until a filter{load,add,clear} command is received. If missing or true, no change in protocol behaviour occurs.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com> wrote:
It's a problem if you work with iterators to deserialize the byte stream. Even failing that, it's just sloppy programming. What happens in the future when new fields are added to the version message? It's not a big deal to say that this protocol version has X number of fields, that (higher) protocol version message has X + N number of fields. Deterministic number of fields per protocol version is sensical and how Bitcoin has been for a long time.
And yes, it was a problem for me that caused a lot of confusion why this byte didn't exist in many version messages despite the standard saying it should and the code in bitcoind indicating it should. Nowhere was this written. It doesn't help other implementations to have an unclear behaviour that depends on some magic from one implementation.
From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
It has to be optional because old clients don't send it, obviously.
Why is this even an issue? There's no problem with variable length messages in any codebase that I'm aware of. Is this solving some actual problem?
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com> wrote:
That's me. I never said to make all messages fixed length. I said to make a fixed number of fields per protocol. So given a protocol version number, you know the number of fields in a message. This is not only easier for parsing messages, but just good practice. I don't see why a 1 byte flag needs to be optional anyway.
From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
It's not a bug (although there was recently a change to make bitcoind/qt always send this field anyway).
I don't know where Amir is going with BIP 60. Version messages have always been variable length. There's nothing inherent in the Bitcoin protocol that says all messages are fixed length, indeed, tx messages are allowed to have arbitrary data appended after them that gets relayed.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com> wrote:
See this BIP. I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but it would be good if messages always had a fixed number of fields per protocol version.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0060#Code_Updates
This BIP details everything that needs to be done and proposes a protocol upgrade.
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2013-06-19 13:03 Paul Lyon
@ 2013-06-19 13:20 ` Mike Hearn
2013-06-20 6:20 ` Turkey Breast
0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Mike Hearn @ 2013-06-19 13:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul Lyon; +Cc: bitcoin-development
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If you want to criticise the Bitcoin protocol for sloppyness, the variable
length of some messages isn't where I'd start.
Note that ping has the same issue, its length has changed over time to
include the nonce.
If your parser can't handle that kind of thing, you need to fix it. The
protocol has always worked that way.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Paul Lyon <pmlyon@hotmail.ca> wrote:
> I’m also running into this exact same issue with my parser, now I
> understand why the relay field behavior I was seeing doesn’t match the wiki.
>
> So to parse a version message, you can’t rely on the protocol version? You
> have to know how long the payload is, and then parse the message
> accordingly? I agree with Turkey Breast, this seems a bit sloppy to me.
>
> Paul
>
> P.S. I’ve never used a dev mailing list before and I want to get involved
> with the Bitcoin dev community, so let me know if I’m horribly violating
> any mailing list etiquette. 😊
>
> *From:* Mike Hearn
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:43 AM
> *To:* Turkey Breast
> *Cc:* bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> Bitcoin-Qt on master does send it now although it doesn't affect anything,
> but as old pre-filtering versions will continue to exist, you'll always
> have to be able to deserialize version messages without it.
>
> Bitcoin version messages have always had variable length, look at how the
> code is written in main.cpp. If you didn't experience issues until now all
> it means is that no sufficiently old nodes were talking to yours.
>
> The standard does not say it should appear. Read it again - BIP 37 says
> about the new version message field:
> If false then broadcast transactions will not be announced until a
> filter{load,add,clear} command is received. *If missing or true*, no
> change in protocol behaviour occurs.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> It's a problem if you work with iterators to deserialize the byte stream.
>> Even failing that, it's just sloppy programming. What happens in the future
>> when new fields are added to the version message? It's not a big deal to
>> say that this protocol version has X number of fields, that (higher)
>> protocol version message has X + N number of fields. Deterministic number
>> of fields per protocol version is sensical and how Bitcoin has been for a
>> long time.
>>
>> And yes, it was a problem for me that caused a lot of confusion why this
>> byte didn't exist in many version messages despite the standard saying it
>> should and the code in bitcoind indicating it should. Nowhere was this
>> written. It doesn't help other implementations to have an unclear behaviour
>> that depends on some magic from one implementation.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
>> *To:* Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
>> *Cc:* "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" <
>> bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:39 AM
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version
>> message
>>
>> It has to be optional because old clients don't send it, obviously.
>>
>> Why is this even an issue? There's no problem with variable length
>> messages in any codebase that I'm aware of. Is this solving some actual
>> problem?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
>>
>> That's me. I never said to make all messages fixed length. I said to make
>> a fixed number of fields per protocol. So given a protocol version number,
>> you know the number of fields in a message. This is not only easier for
>> parsing messages, but just good practice. I don't see why a 1 byte flag
>> needs to be optional anyway.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
>> *To:* Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
>> *Cc:* Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:48 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version
>> message
>>
>> It's not a bug (although there was recently a change to make bitcoind/qt
>> always send this field anyway).
>>
>> I don't know where Amir is going with BIP 60. Version messages have
>> always been variable length. There's nothing inherent in the Bitcoin
>> protocol that says all messages are fixed length, indeed, tx messages are
>> allowed to have arbitrary data appended after them that gets relayed.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
>>
>> See this BIP. I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but it would be good
>> if messages always had a fixed number of fields per protocol version.
>>
>> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0060#Code_Updates
>>
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
2013-06-19 13:20 ` Mike Hearn
@ 2013-06-20 6:20 ` Turkey Breast
2013-06-20 7:10 ` Mike Hearn
2013-06-20 7:13 ` Addy Yeow
0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Turkey Breast @ 2013-06-20 6:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bitcoin-development
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I never said that Bitcoin message field lengths should always be the same. But before this change they certainly were constant per protocol version. All I'm saying is that optional lengths shouldn't be used (a field exists or not) and for every field change, the protocol version should be upgraded.
Now that fRelayTxes is part of the protocol, the version number should be upgraded to reflect this fact.
________________________________
From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Paul Lyon <pmlyon@hotmail.ca>
Cc: Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>; "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
If you want to criticise the Bitcoin protocol for sloppyness, the variable length of some messages isn't where I'd start.
Note that ping has the same issue, its length has changed over time to include the nonce.
If your parser can't handle that kind of thing, you need to fix it. The protocol has always worked that way.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Paul Lyon <pmlyon@hotmail.ca> wrote:
I’m also running into this exact same issue with my parser, now I understand why the relay field behavior I was seeing doesn’t match the wiki.
>
>So to parse a version message, you can’t rely on the protocol version? You have to know how long the payload is, and then parse the message accordingly? I agree with Turkey Breast, this seems a bit sloppy to me.
>
>Paul
>
>P.S. I’ve never used a dev mailing list before and I want to get involved with the Bitcoin dev community, so let me know if I’m horribly violating any mailing list etiquette. 😊
>
>From: Mike Hearn
>Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:43 AM
>To: Turkey Breast
>Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
>
>Bitcoin-Qt on master does send it now although it doesn't affect anything, but as old pre-filtering versions will continue to exist, you'll always have to be able to deserialize version messages without it.
>
>
>Bitcoin version messages have always had variable length, look at how the code is written in main.cpp. If you didn't experience issues until now all it means is that no sufficiently old nodes were talking to yours.
>
>
>The standard does not say it should appear. Read it again - BIP 37 says about the new version message field:
>If false then broadcast transactions will not be announced until a filter{load,add,clear} command is received. If missing or true, no change in protocol behaviour occurs.
>
>
>
>
>On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>It's a problem if you work with iterators to deserialize the byte stream. Even failing that, it's just sloppy programming. What happens in the future when new fields are added to the version message? It's not a big deal to say that this protocol version has X number of fields, that (higher) protocol version message has X + N number of fields. Deterministic number of fields per protocol version is sensical and how Bitcoin has been for a long time.
>>
>>
>>And yes, it was a problem for me that caused a lot of confusion why this byte didn't exist in many version messages despite the standard saying it should and the code in bitcoind indicating it should. Nowhere was this written. It doesn't help other implementations to have an unclear behaviour that depends on some magic from one implementation.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>________________________________
>> From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
>>To: Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
>>Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:39 AM
>>
>>Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
>>
>>
>>
>>It has to be optional because old clients don't send it, obviously.
>>
>>
>>Why is this even an issue? There's no problem with variable length messages in any codebase that I'm aware of. Is this solving some actual problem?
>>
>>
>>
>>On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>That's me. I never said to make all messages fixed length. I said to make a fixed number of fields per protocol. So given a protocol version number, you know the number of fields in a message. This is not only easier for parsing messages, but just good practice. I don't see why a 1 byte flag needs to be optional anyway.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>________________________________
>>> From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
>>>To: Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
>>>Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
>>>Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:48 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>It's not a bug (although there was recently a change to make bitcoind/qt always send this field anyway).
>>>
>>>
>>>I don't know where Amir is going with BIP 60. Version messages have always been variable length. There's nothing inherent in the Bitcoin protocol that says all messages are fixed length, indeed, tx messages are allowed to have arbitrary data appended after them that gets relayed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>See this BIP. I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but it would be good if messages always had a fixed number of fields per protocol version.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0060#Code_Updates
>>>>
>>>>
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
2013-06-20 6:20 ` Turkey Breast
@ 2013-06-20 7:10 ` Mike Hearn
2013-06-20 7:13 ` Addy Yeow
1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Mike Hearn @ 2013-06-20 7:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Turkey Breast; +Cc: bitcoin-development
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The protocol version was bumped when Bloom filtering was added so there's
not much point bumping it again - you have to handle the old clients no
matter what. Nobody brought this up as an issue when the BIP or code was
first written and as you can see from main.cpp, it was done this way to be
consistent with how other version fields are handled:
if (!vRecv.empty())
vRecv >> addrFrom >> nNonce;
if (!vRecv.empty())
vRecv >> pfrom->strSubVer;
if (!vRecv.empty())
vRecv >> pfrom->nStartingHeight;
if (!vRecv.empty())
vRecv >> pfrom->fRelayTxes; // set to true after we get the
first filter* message
The existence of the nStartingHeight field for instance depends on the
message length and not anything else.
Anyway, are you really asking for the protocol to be changed to work around
an issue specific to how you wrote your parsing code? This is the first
time anyone has suggested this minor detail is a problem. It doesn't
present any issues for the C++ code or bitcoinj where message objects know
their own length at parse time.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
> I never said that Bitcoin message field lengths should always be the same.
> But before this change they certainly were constant per protocol version.
> All I'm saying is that optional lengths shouldn't be used (a field exists
> or not) and for every field change, the protocol version should be upgraded.
>
> Now that fRelayTxes is part of the protocol, the version number should be
> upgraded to reflect this fact.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
> *To:* Paul Lyon <pmlyon@hotmail.ca>
> *Cc:* Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>; "
> bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" <
> bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:20 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
>
> If you want to criticise the Bitcoin protocol for sloppyness, the variable
> length of some messages isn't where I'd start.
>
> Note that ping has the same issue, its length has changed over time to
> include the nonce.
>
> If your parser can't handle that kind of thing, you need to fix it. The
> protocol has always worked that way.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Paul Lyon <pmlyon@hotmail.ca> wrote:
>
> I’m also running into this exact same issue with my parser, now I
> understand why the relay field behavior I was seeing doesn’t match the wiki.
>
> So to parse a version message, you can’t rely on the protocol version? You
> have to know how long the payload is, and then parse the message
> accordingly? I agree with Turkey Breast, this seems a bit sloppy to me.
>
> Paul
>
> P.S. I’ve never used a dev mailing list before and I want to get involved
> with the Bitcoin dev community, so let me know if I’m horribly violating
> any mailing list etiquette. 😊
>
> *From:* Mike Hearn
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:43 AM
> *To:* Turkey Breast
> *Cc:* bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> Bitcoin-Qt on master does send it now although it doesn't affect anything,
> but as old pre-filtering versions will continue to exist, you'll always
> have to be able to deserialize version messages without it.
>
> Bitcoin version messages have always had variable length, look at how the
> code is written in main.cpp. If you didn't experience issues until now all
> it means is that no sufficiently old nodes were talking to yours.
>
> The standard does not say it should appear. Read it again - BIP 37 says
> about the new version message field:
> If false then broadcast transactions will not be announced until a
> filter{load,add,clear} command is received. *If missing or true*, no
> change in protocol behaviour occurs.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> It's a problem if you work with iterators to deserialize the byte stream.
> Even failing that, it's just sloppy programming. What happens in the future
> when new fields are added to the version message? It's not a big deal to
> say that this protocol version has X number of fields, that (higher)
> protocol version message has X + N number of fields. Deterministic number
> of fields per protocol version is sensical and how Bitcoin has been for a
> long time.
>
> And yes, it was a problem for me that caused a lot of confusion why this
> byte didn't exist in many version messages despite the standard saying it
> should and the code in bitcoind indicating it should. Nowhere was this
> written. It doesn't help other implementations to have an unclear behaviour
> that depends on some magic from one implementation.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
> *To:* Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" <
> bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:39 AM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
>
> It has to be optional because old clients don't send it, obviously.
>
> Why is this even an issue? There's no problem with variable length
> messages in any codebase that I'm aware of. Is this solving some actual
> problem?
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> That's me. I never said to make all messages fixed length. I said to make
> a fixed number of fields per protocol. So given a protocol version number,
> you know the number of fields in a message. This is not only easier for
> parsing messages, but just good practice. I don't see why a 1 byte flag
> needs to be optional anyway.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
> *To:* Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:48 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
>
> It's not a bug (although there was recently a change to make bitcoind/qt
> always send this field anyway).
>
> I don't know where Amir is going with BIP 60. Version messages have always
> been variable length. There's nothing inherent in the Bitcoin protocol that
> says all messages are fixed length, indeed, tx messages are allowed to have
> arbitrary data appended after them that gets relayed.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> See this BIP. I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but it would be good
> if messages always had a fixed number of fields per protocol version.
>
> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0060#Code_Updates
>
> This BIP details everything that needs to be done and proposes a protocol
> upgrade.
>
>
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
2013-06-20 6:20 ` Turkey Breast
2013-06-20 7:10 ` Mike Hearn
@ 2013-06-20 7:13 ` Addy Yeow
2013-06-20 13:35 ` Jeff Garzik
1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Addy Yeow @ 2013-06-20 7:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Turkey Breast; +Cc: bitcoin-development
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I personally don't treat the relay field as optional, i.e. it is there as
0x01 if it is set. Otherwise, it is simply a trailing zero byte. Hence, the
right way of reading the packet as with any network packet is to first
retrieve the header information, get the actual payload length, then parse
the payload accordingly. I can also choose to include 0x00 for my relay
field in my outgoing packet and reflect that accordingly in my length field
in the header.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
> I never said that Bitcoin message field lengths should always be the same.
> But before this change they certainly were constant per protocol version.
> All I'm saying is that optional lengths shouldn't be used (a field exists
> or not) and for every field change, the protocol version should be upgraded.
>
> Now that fRelayTxes is part of the protocol, the version number should be
> upgraded to reflect this fact.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
> *To:* Paul Lyon <pmlyon@hotmail.ca>
> *Cc:* Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>; "
> bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" <
> bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:20 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
>
> If you want to criticise the Bitcoin protocol for sloppyness, the variable
> length of some messages isn't where I'd start.
>
> Note that ping has the same issue, its length has changed over time to
> include the nonce.
>
> If your parser can't handle that kind of thing, you need to fix it. The
> protocol has always worked that way.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Paul Lyon <pmlyon@hotmail.ca> wrote:
>
> I’m also running into this exact same issue with my parser, now I
> understand why the relay field behavior I was seeing doesn’t match the wiki.
>
> So to parse a version message, you can’t rely on the protocol version? You
> have to know how long the payload is, and then parse the message
> accordingly? I agree with Turkey Breast, this seems a bit sloppy to me.
>
> Paul
>
> P.S. I’ve never used a dev mailing list before and I want to get involved
> with the Bitcoin dev community, so let me know if I’m horribly violating
> any mailing list etiquette. 😊
>
> *From:* Mike Hearn
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:43 AM
> *To:* Turkey Breast
> *Cc:* bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> Bitcoin-Qt on master does send it now although it doesn't affect anything,
> but as old pre-filtering versions will continue to exist, you'll always
> have to be able to deserialize version messages without it.
>
> Bitcoin version messages have always had variable length, look at how the
> code is written in main.cpp. If you didn't experience issues until now all
> it means is that no sufficiently old nodes were talking to yours.
>
> The standard does not say it should appear. Read it again - BIP 37 says
> about the new version message field:
> If false then broadcast transactions will not be announced until a
> filter{load,add,clear} command is received. *If missing or true*, no
> change in protocol behaviour occurs.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> It's a problem if you work with iterators to deserialize the byte stream.
> Even failing that, it's just sloppy programming. What happens in the future
> when new fields are added to the version message? It's not a big deal to
> say that this protocol version has X number of fields, that (higher)
> protocol version message has X + N number of fields. Deterministic number
> of fields per protocol version is sensical and how Bitcoin has been for a
> long time.
>
> And yes, it was a problem for me that caused a lot of confusion why this
> byte didn't exist in many version messages despite the standard saying it
> should and the code in bitcoind indicating it should. Nowhere was this
> written. It doesn't help other implementations to have an unclear behaviour
> that depends on some magic from one implementation.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
> *To:* Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" <
> bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:39 AM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
>
> It has to be optional because old clients don't send it, obviously.
>
> Why is this even an issue? There's no problem with variable length
> messages in any codebase that I'm aware of. Is this solving some actual
> problem?
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> That's me. I never said to make all messages fixed length. I said to make
> a fixed number of fields per protocol. So given a protocol version number,
> you know the number of fields in a message. This is not only easier for
> parsing messages, but just good practice. I don't see why a 1 byte flag
> needs to be optional anyway.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
> *To:* Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:48 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
>
> It's not a bug (although there was recently a change to make bitcoind/qt
> always send this field anyway).
>
> I don't know where Amir is going with BIP 60. Version messages have always
> been variable length. There's nothing inherent in the Bitcoin protocol that
> says all messages are fixed length, indeed, tx messages are allowed to have
> arbitrary data appended after them that gets relayed.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Turkey Breast <turkeybreast@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> See this BIP. I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but it would be good
> if messages always had a fixed number of fields per protocol version.
>
> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0060#Code_Updates
>
> This BIP details everything that needs to be done and proposes a protocol
> upgrade.
>
>
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Missing fRelayTxes in version message
2013-06-20 7:13 ` Addy Yeow
@ 2013-06-20 13:35 ` Jeff Garzik
0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Garzik @ 2013-06-20 13:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Addy Yeow; +Cc: bitcoin-development
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Addy Yeow <ayeowch@gmail.com> wrote:
> I personally don't treat the relay field as optional, i.e. it is there as
> 0x01 if it is set. Otherwise, it is simply a trailing zero byte. Hence, the
> right way of reading the packet as with any network packet is to first
> retrieve the header information, get the actual payload length, then parse
> the payload accordingly. I can also choose to include 0x00 for my relay
> field in my outgoing packet and reflect that accordingly in my length field
> in the header.
That works until another field is added in the same manner.
Implementations are expected to follow the standard logic of
if (more data)
parse field X
if (more data)
parse field X+1
if (more data)
parse field X+2
etc.
Ugly or not, there is no point in changing now. Updating the version
message to a radically different design, for simply cleanliness
reasons, is not sufficient cause to migrate the entire bitcoin
universe to a new and different version/feature negotiation setup.
--
Jeff Garzik
Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/
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