Re: Communicating with Keyservers

["Adam Schreiber" <sadam clemson edu>]

On Dec 24, 2007 3:01 PM, Tom Dowden <tom dowden gmail com> wrote:
> I have noticed that when getting a public key from a keyserver,
> Seahorse does not request the data in a machine readable format, but
> instead tries to parse the html output. This means that Seahorse is
> only able to retrieve keys from keyservers that display their output
> in a certain way.
> Is there a reason for this?

That's HKP (html key protocol), and I believe GPG does the same thing.

Cheers,

Adam