Flag Definitions¶
Main Flags¶
These flags will denote the primary purpose of a message.
- broadcast =
"\x00" - waterfall =
"\x01" - whisper =
"\x02" - renegotiate =
"\x03" - ping =
"\x04" - pong =
"\x05"
Sub-Flags¶
These flags will denote the secondary purpose, or a more specific purpose, of a message.
- broadcast =
"\x00" - compression =
"\x01" - whisper =
"\x02" - handshake =
"\x03" - ping =
"\x04" - pong =
"\x05" - notify =
"\x06" - peers =
"\x07" - request =
"\x08" - resend =
"\x09" - response =
"\x0A" - store =
"\x0B" - retrieve =
"\x0C"
Compression Flags¶
These flags will denote standard compression methods.
All¶
- bwtc =
"\x14" - bz2 =
"\x10" - context1 =
"\x15" - defsum =
"\x16" - dmc =
"\x17" - fenwick =
"\x18" - gzip =
"\x11" - huffman =
"\x19" - lzjb =
"\x1A" - lzjbr =
"\x1B" - lzma =
"\x12" - lzp3 =
"\x1C" - mtf =
"\x1D" - ppmd =
"\x1E" - simple =
"\x1F" - zlib =
"\x13"
C++ Planned¶
- gzip
- zlib
Javascript Implemented¶
- gzip
- zlib
Reserved Flags¶
These define the flags that other applications should not use, as they either are (or will be) used by the standard protocol.
Currently, this is all single byte characters from 0x00 to 0x20. This list may be expanded later.