From: kjj <bitcoin-devel@jerviss.org>
To: Gavin <gavinandresen@gmail.com>,
Jean-Paul Kogelman <jeanpaulkogelman@me.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Feedback requested: "reject" p2p message
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:32:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <526B45DB.2030200@jerviss.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9DCDB8F6-E3B2-426B-A41E-087E66B3821A@gmail.com>
The HTTP status code system seems to work well enough, and seems to give
the best of both worlds. A 3 digit numeric code that is
machine-readable, and a freeform text note for humans.
The clever part about that system was in realizing that the numeric
codes didn't need to account for every possible error. They just need to
give the other node the most useful information, like "try that again
later, I'm having a temporary problem" vs. "That is just plain wrong and
it will still be wrong next time too, so don't bother to retry".
We can leave it to the humans to puzzle out the meaning of "403: values
of txid gives rise to dom!"
Gavin wrote:
>
> On Oct 26, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Jean-Paul Kogelman <jeanpaulkogelman@me.com> wrote:
>
>> Would it make sense to use either fixed length strings or maybe even enums?
> No. Enums or fixed length strings just make it harder to extend, for no benefit (bandwidth of 'reject' messages doesn't matter, they will be rare and are not relayed).
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-26 4:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-26 0:34 [Bitcoin-development] Feedback requested: "reject" p2p message Gavin Andresen
2013-10-26 1:01 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2013-10-26 2:00 ` Gavin
2013-10-26 4:32 ` kjj [this message]
2013-10-27 14:32 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-27 14:39 ` Luke-Jr
2013-10-27 14:50 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-30 17:13 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-31 12:01 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-27 22:52 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-10-28 2:52 ` kjj
2013-10-28 9:26 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-10-28 9:32 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-29 5:37 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-10-29 8:55 ` Warren Togami Jr.
2013-10-29 9:12 ` Peter Todd
2013-10-29 9:52 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-29 10:14 ` Peter Todd
2013-10-29 11:38 ` Peter Todd
2013-10-29 12:32 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-29 16:35 ` [Bitcoin-development] On soft-forks and hard-forks Peter Todd
2013-10-30 2:01 ` [Bitcoin-development] Feedback requested: "reject" p2p message Gavin Andresen
2013-10-30 8:24 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-30 9:05 ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-10-30 10:26 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-28 2:59 ` Luke-Jr
2013-10-28 3:02 ` Pieter Wuille
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