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Old September 18th, 2001
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Lightbulb "Searching new host", refining string

I guess, if I search for "divx", and mark "Gone in 60 seconds divx.avi" for download, Xolox will continue searching new hosts matching "divx" with the same file name and length returned in the Gnutella QueryHit protocol message.

But it looks to me that a less defining query like "divx" is not so likely to include all the same hits as a search for a more refined query with the whole file name. Like when too large hit sets are truncated at clients or just lost due errors or whatever Gnutella network poblems.

So could we benefit of "Searching for new hosts" with the actual file names? Would this be dangerous, because Gnutella does not standardize, how clients do string matching, and so does not madate that "x%&yz" matches all the hits that "x%&" or "&yz" matches?

Or is Xolox already doing this? Looks like it isn't!
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