From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: should Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt be marked obsolete? Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <7vsjzyrh2w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20101022150627.GB9224@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List To: Sitaram Chamarty X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 23 09:25:14 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P9YTa-0000XA-Gp for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:25:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753548Ab0JWHYx convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2010 03:24:53 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:46343 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753002Ab0JWHYx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2010 03:24:53 -0400 Received: by bwz11 with SMTP id 11so1164290bwz.19 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:24:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=5AKWlOHUdXD5GH0vuV/oPMmt1Q1Rf0xkpduBu34vrtg=; b=I1SdwW/mGSXbQxuKF8zDZIgDGCejet70y3wzidY1+3Vh4+8Svikhn7oMNWNqvSmCHk OS+LpNvnc1lbt1gvXtQKfmo5DWGofCrPkM/VeQ7a7WrKI2OplTZJqiMO7ESkP3c9n8Mj p4LWBpANIShMImRCVqUTaiBmz8h7fY86EL1GY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=nEQQIOZD19sbQCMHFr6hHUcApIQzBZfwqSTiKk+HWS9+NBGhVWwV8krjBR8YhfJePM EEI0PRE7QMGqozvXRrxFXoWDdTrXaxf6B5G6mbNQfce7Dct0WUiKjxz6QhWwfOzZI7Zr 07DUXeiX88yK6Flsc2t0KNBycncJ7UamcerCs= Received: by 10.204.113.197 with SMTP id b5mr2090745bkq.151.1287818691444; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:24:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abvu212.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.218.212]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c40sm433986fay.0.2010.10.23.00.24.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o9N7OUUQ014093; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:24:35 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id o9N7OE6I014082; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:24:14 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sitaram Chamarty writes: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Jonathan Nieder = wrote: >> Sitaram Chamarty wrote: >> >>> I assumed that the new -- much more efficient (correct?) transport >>> would make the older (dumber) transport obsolete, and I didn't real= ise >>> it had any advantages over the new one. >> >> FWIW the old transport still has its place. =A0If your web host (e.g= =2E, >> an ISP) allows only static content (no CGI), then there is no choice= =2E >> >> Not so relevant for gitolite but still relevant in the world. >=20 > Also I now realise the new transport requires Apache, so people with > other web servers probably need it too. Why do people think that "smart" HTTP transport requires Apache web server? If I understand it correctly provided git-http-backend is a simple CGI script, and requires CGI-capable web server and git installed on server. Examples use Apache because probably that is what author was familiar with. I don't see the reason why it shouldn't work e.g. with nginx or IIS... --=20 Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git