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+import socket, os, time, select, urllib, sys
+
+def announce():
+
+	#announces it's existance to other nodes
+	sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET6, socket.SOCK_DGRAM, socket.IPPROTO_UDP)
+	sock.sendto(bericht, ("ff02::1", 13337))
+	sock.close()
+
+def index():
+
+	a = ''
+	# builds the latest index of all the messages that are on this node
+
+def discover(known_devices):
+
+	# discovers other nodes by listening to the Meshenger announce port
+	own_ip = get_ip_adress()
+	port = 13337  # where do you expect to get a msg?
+	bufferSize = 1024 # whatever you need
+
+	s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET6, socket.SOCK_DGRAM, socket.IPPROTO_UDP)
+	s.bind(('::', port))
+	s.setblocking(0)
+
+	global devices
+
+	while True:
+	    result = select.select([s],[],[])[0][0].recvfrom(bufferSize)
+	    if result not in known_devices and result[1][0] != own_ip:
+	   		devices.append(result[1][0])
+	   		return
+	    time.sleep(1)
+
+def serve():
+
+	a = ''
+	# serves both the index and the messages on the node over http
+	# plus manages the client-side web interface
+
+def build_index():
+	previous_index = []
+
+	current_index = os.listdir('msg/')
+
+	if current_index != previous_index:
+		with open('index', 'wb') as index:
+			for message in os.listdir('msg/'):
+				index.write(message)
+				index.write('\n')
+		current_index = previous_index
+
+def get_index(ip, path):
+
+	os.system('wget http://['+ip+'%adhoc0]:13338/index -O '+os.path.join(path,'index'))
+
+	# downloads the index from other nodes and then proceeds to downloads messages it doesn't have already
+
+def get_messages(ip, path):
+
+	with open(os.path.join(path,'index')) as index:
+		index = index.read().split('\n')
+		for message in index:
+			messagepath = os.path.join(os.path.abspath('msg/'), message)
+			if not os.path.exists(messagepath):
+				print 'downloading', message, 'to', messagepath
+				os.system('wget http://['+ip+'%adhoc0]:13338/msg/'+message+' -O '+messagepath)
+
+
+	# s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET6, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+
+	# s.connect(('http://[fe80::6666:b3ff:feeb:68c2%adhoc0]/lijst', 13338))
+
+	# s.send("GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n")
+
+	# while 1:
+	# 	buf = s.recv(1000)
+	# 	if not buf:
+	# 		break
+	# 	sys.stdout.write(buf)
+
+	# s.close()
+
+def ip_to_hash(ip):
+	import hashlib
+	hasj = hashlib.md5(ip).hexdigest()
+	nodepath = os.path.join(os.path.abspath('nodes/'), hasj)
+	if not os.path.exists(nodepath):
+		os.mkdir(nodepath)
+
+	return nodepath
+
+
+def clientsite():
+	a = ''
+
+#tools
+
+def get_ip_adress():
+	if not os.path.isfile('interfaceip6adress'):
+		os.system('ifconfig -a adhoc0 | grep inet6 > interfaceip6adress')
+
+	with open('interfaceip6adress', 'r') as a:
+		return a.read().split()[2].split('/')[0]
+
+while True:
+	devices = [] #the list of all the nodes this this node has seen
+	print 'discovering devices'
+	time.sleep(1)
+	discover(devices)
+
+	if len(devices) > 0:
+		print 'found', len(devices),'device(s) retreiving indices'
+		for device in devices:
+			nodepath = ip_to_hash(device)
+
+			get_index(device, nodepath)
+
+			get_messages(device, nodepath)
+			print 'updating own index'
+			build_index()
+			#voeg toe aan eigen index --> build_index()
+	time.sleep(5)