1.4. Bob's OP advertises his server descriptor
Bob's OP opens a stream to each directory server's directory port via Tor.
+ (He may re-use old circuits for this.)
Over this stream, Bob's OP makes an HTTP 'POST' request, to the URL
'/rendezvous/publish' (relative to the directory server's root),
containing as its body Bob's service descriptor. Upon receiving a
Alice opens a stream to a directory server via Tor, and makes an HTTP GET
request for the document '/rendezvous/<y>', where '<y> is replaced with the
- encoding of Bob's public key as described above. The directory replies
- with a 404 HTTP response if it does not recognize <y>, and otherwise
- returns Bob's most recently uploaded service descriptor.
+ encoding of Bob's public key as described above. (She may re-use old
+ circuits for this.) The directory replies with a 404 HTTP response if
+ it does not recognize <y>, and otherwise returns Bob's most recently
+ uploaded service descriptor.
If Alice's OP receives a 404 response, it tries the other directory
servers, and only fails the lookup if none recognizes the public key hash.