Re: Smart fetch via HTTP?

[alan <alan@clueserver.org>]

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>>
>> Many (if not most?) of the people working in a big company, I'd say.
>> Year, it sucks, but people having used a paranoid firewall with a
>> not-less-paranoid and broken proxy understand what I mean.
>
> Well, we could try to support the git protocol over port 80..
>
> IOW, it's probably easier to try to get people to use
>
> 	git clone git://some.host:80/project
>
> and just run git-daemon on port 80, than it is to try to set of magic cgi
> scripts etc.

Except some filtering firewalls try and strip content from data (like 
ActiveX controls.)

Running git on port 53 will bypass pretty much every firewall out there.

(If you want to learn how to bypass an overactive firewall, talk to a 
bunch of teenagers at a school with an agressive porn filter.)

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