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Old January 16th, 2002
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Default What is the deal with these file extentions?

Hello all,
I use Gnotella and lately when I'm searching I have been noticing files with very odd extentions. Here is an example of the odd extention: .urn:sha1:WBMXBPFS2DZBP2DZBP2DHF735CNDCFC76ZH89
What the heck is this?
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These are hash-values for the file that was found. If you find another file with the same hash-value, you can safely assume it is the same file, even though the name is different.
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How are these "high slash" values created? So your saying I can search for just the file extention? Any additional info or links would be appreciated.

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So your saying your creating them?
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The hash is supposed to be between the two nulls after the file name (it is not a part of the filename). This is probably either a bug in the way Gnotella parses query hits or it's debug information that never got removed. You, the user, should never have to see the hash urn.

Just out of curiosity, have you been able to download any of these files?
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Old January 18th, 2002
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Gnotella sees everything after the first \0 of a filename as file type information.. this is also why/how it shows the bitrate/time etc of mp3's. The urn:sha1:HASH is after the \0 so it displays that.

You can safely ignore the hashes in Gnotella, as it doesn't use the extended information, it merely displays them afaik

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Yes, I've been able to download these files with Gnotella, and open them. The strange thing is that they started to appear these days.

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