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Hi, I argue from this that the opaque info passed e.g. through xrdcp must be passed for any request containing a filename, like Stat or Dirlist. Am I right? Fabrizio Andrew Hanushevsky wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > OK, so it would appear that we will need to extract out the information > after the "?" and pass that as a separate parameter. I do that, instead of > passing the complete url, so as to not re-implement searching for the > opaque information in every function. The called function, hoewver, is > responsible for making sense of the opaque information. > > That does mean changing most file system calls to include the opaque > parameter. That also solves the olbd issue in a unified way. > > Do we all agree to go that route? > > Andy > > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Andreas Joachim Peters wrote: > > >>As it is, it is absolutely fine for me. I would prefer, that the complete >>URL is always passed to any function and the function has to extract the part >>it needs. But as it is, it works perfectly for us. >> >>I use the following syntax: >> >> root://server.domain:port/<lfn>?&authz=<authorization block> >> >>Because even for a stat command it can be useful, that you can specify >>some environment variable like the stagepool the file is on. >> >>Cheers Andreas. >> >>