# Gavin Andresen
# 2012-09-17 20:18:35
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110182.msg1198913#msg1198913

You request a transaction by hash (using an 'inv' message). @p{par}

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. @p{brk}