Re: Extension to packet lengths

[Adam Back <aba@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hal Finney <hal@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> We would add an optional four-byte length encoding, which would be
> indicated by having the first byte be 0xff.  When this is the first
> byte of the length field, it would mean that the following four
> bytes would be the length of the packet.
> 
> Presently, a length byte of 0xff is interpreted as a partial-length
> byte with length 2^31 or 2 GB.  We would eliminate this interpretation
> in favor of the new one.  This is only a small loss of functionality,
> since if partial-length packets are being used, the pieces will
> probably be much smaller than 2 GB.
> 
> Comments?

Yes.  Use your approach of prefix of 0xff followed by 4 byte length
field.  Deprecate all other length field types (except for unknown
length?)

Adam