From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git-aware HTTP transport
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:14:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B38340.8050504@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080826034544.GA32334@spearce.org>
Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
> So I think the cost may actually break even with a stateful protocol
> if we imagine that the server is actually a farm of systems and
> simple round-robin load-balancing is being done in front of the
> Git-aware server.
>
> I'd really like to keep the protocol stateless on the server side, as
> this makes it easier to embed into certain commerical server farms.
>
Indeed. It was a question, not a statement of any sort. I was curious
about the answer.
I really like the new draft, with the one consideration below.
>
> HTTP Transport
> --------------
>
> All requests are encoded as HTTP POST requests to the smart service
> URL, "$url/backend.git-http/$service".
>
> All responses are encoded as 200 Ok responses, even if the server
> side has "failed" the request. Service specific success/failure
> codes are embedded in the content.
>
I still would like to have an indirection step at the start, in order to
keep a single client on a server in the case of skew. I suggest simply
do it as HTTP POST $url/backend.git-http, empty body, and return a URL
prefix to use for the remainder of the session. That way a server who
wants a stateful setup can return a URL which contains a session cookie;
others can return a URL containing a target server, and finally others
can simply return the requesting URL.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-26 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-26 1:26 Git-aware HTTP transport Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-26 2:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-26 3:45 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-26 3:59 ` david
2008-08-26 4:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-26 4:25 ` david
2008-08-26 4:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-26 4:45 ` Imran M Yousuf
2008-08-26 17:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-26 17:03 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-26 4:14 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-08-26 14:58 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-26 16:14 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-26 16:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-26 17:26 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-26 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-27 2:51 ` Imran M Yousuf
2008-08-28 3:50 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 4:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 4:42 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 4:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 6:40 ` Imran M Yousuf
2008-08-28 4:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-28 14:57 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 17:26 ` david
2008-08-28 17:28 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 17:37 ` david
2008-08-28 17:38 ` Daniel Stenberg
2008-08-28 17:43 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 17:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 18:04 ` Mike Hommey
2008-08-28 17:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 18:12 ` david
2008-08-28 18:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 18:18 ` david
2008-08-29 4:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-29 5:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-29 6:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-29 17:39 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-29 19:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-01 16:05 ` Tarmigan
2008-09-01 16:13 ` Tarmigan
2008-09-02 6:06 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-02 6:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-02 6:13 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-02 18:20 ` Tarmigan
2008-08-28 17:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 17:10 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 17:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 17:26 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 17:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 17:46 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 18:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-28 18:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-13 1:34 ` Git-aware HTTP transport docs H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-13 2:23 ` Scott Chacon
2013-02-13 15:29 ` Junio C Hamano
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