Re: [Openpacket-devel] File Naming Conventions

[Tim F. <fu...@cc...>]

Good point - I'd suggest the submitter's userid, a timestamp either of the
start of the capture or of the submission, and a short description/title
submitted by the user (probably a normalized version of a short free-text
title).  For the timestamp, the start of capture would be better, but that
might be information that the user wants to be anonymized, in which case the
submission timestamp might be more appropriate.

I don't know about putting too much more information in the filename; if we
want it to carry along a lot of meta-info, perhaps we should think about
including an associated text .readme or xml .meta_info file (then all of the
d/l files would have to be archives), or including fake packets in the trace
to carry meta-info (not exactly an elegant solution).  I'm just thinking
that with all of the meta-info we could possibly include, the filename could
start getting a bit silly after a few revs.  It might be better to just
allow users to look up all the meta-info on the website via filename or
md5sum or something, though I'd agree it would be nice to have all the
necessary info without having to go back to the website, for various reasons
(e.g. lack of connectivity of either the user or the site).

-Tim

On 7/30/06, Mark Mason <mas...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hello -
>
> I'm still working on a Rails version of the site.
> No problem if you end up using David's version.
>
> Are you writing any information in the uploaded caps filenames?
> Source, application, os, date, version information?
>
> If I download caps from the site, how do I keep them organized?
>
> Take it easy.
>
> Mark
>
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