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From: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Google Code: Support for Mercurial and Analysis of Git and  Mercurial
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:00:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca433830904291700q608f6192i66a83bca9b88b739@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090427211502.GI23604@spearce.org>

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> IOW, if Git wants to expand into these user communities where the
> individual is stuck behind a corporate proxy that only permits HTTP
> "for security reasons" (but blindly winds up passing through whatever
> it gets), we need to support a more efficient HTTP protocol.

Another advantage of supporting HTTP is allowing HTTPS.  SSL can take
advantage of an existing PKI infrastructure, either the Internet's
existing server-side certificate system, or a corporate server- and
possibly client-side PKI infrastructure.

--
Mark

      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-30  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-26  5:03 Google Code: Support for Mercurial and Analysis of Git and Mercurial Christian Couder
2009-04-26  7:12 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-26  8:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-04-26  8:23   ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2009-04-26 10:07     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-26 10:16       ` Jakub Narebski
2009-04-26 10:18       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-26 12:02         ` Alex Blewitt
2009-04-27 20:31           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-04-26 10:21       ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2009-04-26  9:21   ` Matthias Andree
2009-04-26 10:09     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-04-26 11:47       ` Matthias Andree
2009-04-26 19:57       ` Jakub Narebski
2009-04-26 14:54   ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-04-26 16:45     ` Michael Witten
2009-04-26 16:56     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-26 17:33       ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-04-26 17:45         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-26 18:00           ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-04-26 18:59   ` James Cloos
2009-04-26 10:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-26 16:47   ` Michael Witten
2009-04-26 22:24   ` Miles Bader
2009-04-27 21:15   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-04-30  0:00     ` Mark Lodato [this message]

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