Means watchful or alert.
The idea is that this is a content addressable cache. So we can have a hashing scheme, and a hash, and then use that to locate a piece of content.
So clients could simply call the server server.com/<hashing scheme>/<base64 encoded hash>, and then get the content at that address, or a 404 if we do not have it.
Additionally, we can put new content in by way of a POST -- this still needs to be secured.
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Node version 0.4.1
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NPM verison 0.3.3
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Install node (https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/Installation)
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Install npm (https://github.com/isaacs/npm)
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NODE_ENV=(development|production) node index.js
Note I use supervisor (https://github.com/fgnass/node-dev) during development, so the last step is:
- NODE_ENV=development node-dev index.js
/content -> this is where you POST new content
/hashing -> get a list of supported hashing schemes
/hashing/<scheme> -> return whether this scheme is supported or not
/hashing/<scheme>/content -> list of BASE64 encoded keys for the particular scheme
/hashing/<scheme>/content/<key> -> content item
- Finish implementing the basic API
- Add validation based on hashing of the content to ensure that it infact syncs up.
- Use an awesome data structure (going to use the file system)
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