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authorWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>1998-04-04 22:16:55 +0200
committerWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>1998-04-04 22:16:55 +0200
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@@ -234,3 +234,52 @@ There is one enhavement used ith the old style packet headers:
+ another packet version to tell the application that it can not assume,
+ that this is the last packet.
+
+
+
+
+Keyserver Message Format
+-------------------------
+
+The keyserver may be contacted by a Unix Domain socket or via TCP.
+
+The Format of a request is:
+
+----
+command-tag
+"Content-length:" digits
+CRLF
+------
+
+Where command-tag is
+
+GET <user-name>
+PUT
+DELETE <user-name>
+
+
+The format of a response is:
+
+------
+"GNUPG/1.0" status-code status-text
+"Content-length:" digits
+CRLF
+------------
+followed by <digits> bytes of data
+
+
+Status codes are:
+
+ o 1xx: Informational - Request received, continuing process
+
+ o 2xx: Success - The action was successfully received, understood,
+ and accepted
+
+ o 4xx: Client Error - The request contains bad syntax or cannot be
+ fulfilled
+
+ o 5xx: Server Error - The server failed to fulfill an apparently
+ valid request
+
+
+