From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
To: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH 13/14] shift dumb server response details
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 01:07:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1378832878-12811-14-git-send-email-rctay89@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378832878-12811-13-git-send-email-rctay89@gmail.com>
Shift details like ABNF from the client section to server section. This
is in line with the smart analogue.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt | 49 +++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt
index 63a089a..3098aa4 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt
@@ -162,30 +162,6 @@ without any search/query parameters. E.g.
S: 2cb58b79488a98d2721cea644875a8dd0026b115 refs/tags/v1.0\n
S: a3c2e2402b99163d1d59756e5f207ae21cccba4c refs/tags/v1.0^{}\n
-The Content-Type of the returned info/refs entity SHOULD be
-"text/plain; charset=utf-8", but MAY be any content type.
-Clients MUST NOT attempt to validate the returned Content-Type.
-Dumb servers MUST NOT return a return type starting with
-"application/x-git-".
-
-Cache-Control headers MAY be returned to disable caching of the
-returned entity.
-
-When examining the response clients SHOULD only examine the HTTP
-status code. Valid responses are '200 OK', or '304 Not Modified'.
-
-The returned content is a UNIX formatted text file describing
-each ref and its known value. The file SHOULD be sorted by name
-according to the C locale ordering. The file SHOULD NOT include
-the default ref named 'HEAD'.
-
- info_refs = *( ref_record )
- ref_record = any_ref / peeled_ref
-
- any_ref = obj-id HTAB refname LF
- peeled_ref = obj-id HTAB refname LF
- obj-id HTAB refname "^{}" LF
-
Smart Clients
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -229,8 +205,29 @@ Dumb Server Response
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dumb servers MUST respond with the dumb server reply format.
-See the prior section under dumb clients for a more detailed
-description of the dumb server response.
+The Content-Type of the returned info/refs entity SHOULD be
+"text/plain; charset=utf-8", but MAY be any content type.
+Clients MUST NOT attempt to validate the returned Content-Type.
+Dumb servers MUST NOT return a return type starting with
+"application/x-git-".
+
+Cache-Control headers MAY be returned to disable caching of the
+returned entity.
+
+When examining the response clients SHOULD only examine the HTTP
+status code. Valid responses are '200 OK', or '304 Not Modified'.
+
+The returned content is a UNIX formatted text file describing
+each ref and its known value. The file SHOULD be sorted by name
+according to the C locale ordering. The file SHOULD NOT include
+the default ref named 'HEAD'.
+
+ info_refs = *( ref_record )
+ ref_record = any_ref / peeled_ref
+
+ any_ref = obj-id HTAB refname LF
+ peeled_ref = obj-id HTAB refname LF
+ obj-id HTAB refname "^{}" LF
Smart Server Response
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
--
1.8.4.rc4.527.g303b16c
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-10 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-09 5:22 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Return of smart HTTP Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:22 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] Document the HTTP transport protocol Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:22 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:22 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] Add smart-http options to upload-pack, receive-pack Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:22 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] Smart fetch and push over HTTP: server side Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:52 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport J.H.
2009-10-09 8:01 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] Document the HTTP transport protocol Sverre Rabbelier
2009-10-09 8:09 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-10-09 8:54 ` Alex Blewitt
2009-10-15 16:39 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 19:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-10-09 19:50 ` Jeff King
2009-10-15 16:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-15 17:39 ` Jeff King
2009-10-09 20:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-10 10:12 ` Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
2009-10-16 5:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-16 7:19 ` Mike Hommey
2009-10-16 14:21 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-16 14:23 ` Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
2010-04-07 18:16 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-07 18:19 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-07 19:11 ` (resend v2) " Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-07 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-08 1:47 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-07 19:24 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-10-10 12:17 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-06 4:57 ` Scott Chacon
2010-04-06 6:09 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <u2hd411cc4a1004060652k5a7f8ea4l67a9b079963f4dc4@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-06 13:53 ` Scott Chacon
2010-04-06 17:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 00/14] document edits to original http protocol documentation Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 01/14] Document the HTTP transport protocol Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 02/14] normalize indentation with protcol-common.txt Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 03/14] capitalize key words according to RFC 2119 Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 04/14] normalize rules with RFC 5234 Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 05/14] drop rules, etc. common to the pack protocol Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 06/14] reword behaviour on missing repository or objects Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 07/14] weaken specification over cookies for authentication Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 08/14] mention different variations around $GIT_URL Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 09/14] reduce ambiguity over '?' in $GIT_URL for dumb clients Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 10/14] fix example request/responses Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 11/14] be clearer in place of 'remote repository' phrase Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 12/14] reduce confusion over smart server response behaviour Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` Tay Ray Chuan [this message]
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 14/14] mention effect of "allow-tip-sha1-in-want" capability on git-upload-pack Tay Ray Chuan
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