From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git-aware HTTP transport
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:38:59 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0808281937580.10660@yvahk3.pbagnpgbe.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0808281033070.2713@asgard.lang.hm>
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, david@lang.hm wrote:
>>> except that HTTP cannot transport binary data, if you feed it binary data
>>> it then encodes it into 7-bit safe forms for transport.
>>
>> So then how does it transport a GIF file to my browser? uuencoded?
>
> something like that. it uses the mimetype mechanisms to identify the various
> pieces and encodes each piece (if nothing else it needs to make sure that
> the mimetype seperators don't appear in the data) uuencode is one of the
> available mechanisms.
No. HTTP is 8bit clean and sends and receives binary just fine. You seem to
think of SMTP or something.
--
/ daniel.haxx.se
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-28 17:44 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
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 [this message]
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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