From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Corporate firewall braindamage Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:50:06 -0700 Message-ID: <47FEA7AE.1050403@zytor.com> References: <47FE8277.8070503@zytor.com> <7v7if5wbdd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080410233328.GQ10274@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List , ftpadmin To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 11 01:51:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jk6YB-00017l-TJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:51:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755826AbYDJXud (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:50:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755943AbYDJXud (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:50:33 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41164 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755116AbYDJXud (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:50:33 -0400 Received: from mail.hos.anvin.org (c-98-210-181-100.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [98.210.181.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m3ANo82I004279 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:50:09 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (tazenda.hos.anvin.org [172.27.0.16]) by mail.hos.anvin.org (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3ANo7kF014359; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:50:07 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tazenda.hos.anvin.org (8.14.2/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m3ANo6m8032619; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:50:06 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) In-Reply-To: <20080410233328.GQ10274@spearce.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6005/Tue Feb 26 14:01:21 2008 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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