Dev:APIHttpHeader

HTTP Header Attributes for YaCy API calls

When calling a remote peer the standard HTTP/1.1 header properties are sufficient.

The Host-Attribute

There is the HTTP/1.1-required 'Host'-Attribute which can be filled with the IP of the called peer. The caller should put the peer's virtual HexHash domain name of the called peer in this 'Host' attribute, if the called peer can operate as mentor peer and the caller wants to address this feature. The Enhanced Base64-encoded peer hash is encoded as HexHash and the host name is created using this HexHash with an appended '.yacyh' extension. A Host property in the http header looks like

Host: d7841c7477a57de875.yacyh

This is only necessary if the called host is a mentor peer and the target host is a mentee peer.