From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: More on git over HTTP POST Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:42:54 -0700 Message-ID: <489599BE.3050000@zytor.com> References: <48938539.9060003@zytor.com> <20080802205702.GA24723@spearce.org> <20080803025602.GB27465@spearce.org> <7v63qiydzg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <48952A62.6050709@zytor.com> <20080803041014.GD27465@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List To: david@lang.hm X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 03 13:44:08 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 1KPc0N-0004u6-Rt for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:44:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753802AbYHCLnH (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 07:43:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753772AbYHCLnG (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 07:43:06 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40592 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753531AbYHCLnE (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 07:43:04 -0400 Received: from [10.71.1.72] ([12.197.88.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m73BgaVG022761 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 04:42:36 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/7920/Sun Aug 3 01:44:32 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: david@lang.hm wrote: > > actually, it's not just a matter of not getting 'past this dark age of > the Internet', it's an issue that so many people are tunneling > _everyting_ over http (including the bad guys tunneling malware) that > proxies are getting more aggressive then they have ever been before in > pulling apart the payload and analysing it before letting it get through > to the far side. > ... which is of course because of said proxies that this is happening, too. There are too many idiots out there building "security software" and running IT departments, that's really the bottom line. By the way, I want to say *thank you* to Shawn for tackling this project: this has been a major issue for kernel.org, and getting something like this deployed would be incredibly helpful. -hpa