From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
ftpadmin <ftpadmin@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Corporate firewall braindamage
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:50:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FEA7AE.1050403@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080410233328.GQ10274@spearce.org>
Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
> Funny you say that. This was a GSoC 2008 project idea. We even
> received an application from a student for it.
>
> The hard part is either making the server side stateful, so it can
> remember what the last RCP call had said it wants/haves, or doing a
> stateless protocol where the client uses an exponential expansion
> (or some such behavior) of its have list until the server replies
> with the pack data.
>
One easy way of doing the former is to have a session reassociator in
the flow; pretty much a multiplexer which receives the HTTP request, and
passes it onto a work slave (which can be an ordinary process, in fact,
can be the ordinary git daemon) based on a session and sequence ID.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-10 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-10 21:11 Corporate firewall braindamage H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-10 23:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-10 23:33 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-04-10 23:50 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-11 1:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-11 8:25 ` david
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