tx protocol spec

[optimator]

I'm comparing the information in blockexplorer to the protocol specification on the wiki https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification.

Specifically, I'm interested in the tx message type. Block explorer shows a hash for each tx entry. This makes sense. However, I don't see a tx hash in the specs?? I'm sure I'm just missing it... Can someone point me in the right direction?

[Gavin Andresen]

You request a transaction by hash (using an 'inv' message).

You then get the transaction in a 'tx' message.  The hash isn't sent as part of that data, because you can reconstruct it by hashing the transaction data.

[optimator]

Thanks!!! I was making it harder that it was....