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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] Add Git-aware CGI for Git-aware smart HTTP transport
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:25:16 -0700
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>> +#define hex(a) (hexchar[(a) & 15])
>> +static void chunked_write(const char *fmt, ...)
>> +{
>
> Maybe I am slightly confused, but I thought handling HTTP chunking for  
> HTTP/1.1+ clients was usually done by Apache above the level of the CGI  
> script?

You may be right.  Apache undoes the chunking during a POST before
feeding the data to the CGI script.  If we can omit this mess of
code from git-http-backend that's a good thing.

Thanks for the sanity check.

-- 
Shawn.