Nothing in Gnutella says that this feature needs to exist. Distributed search and distributed download work fine without it. In reality, this was always a bit of a hack to allow for things like real estate and book searches (as demonstrated in the past). These are cool and interesting but not core. The fact that what looks like a file can launch an html page has always been a bit odd. These results could always have been html or url types that the user would then recognize directly as a web page.

It is niave to think that you could just make use of this feature in wide use. Opening a browser page is just too attractive to spammers. Encouraging more spammer activity is just bad. Sorry man.

Thanks
-greg