From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:25:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] Add Git-aware CGI for Git-aware smart HTTP transport
Message-ID: <20080803212516.GB31762@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <489598C5.6060508@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>> +#define hex(a) (hexchar[(a) & 15])
>> +static void chunked_write(const char *fmt, ...)
>> +{
>
> Maybe I am slightly confused, but I thought handling HTTP chunking for  
> HTTP/1.1+ clients was usually done by Apache above the level of the CGI  
> script?

You may be right.  Apache undoes the chunking during a POST before
feeding the data to the CGI script.  If we can omit this mess of
code from git-http-backend that's a good thing.

Thanks for the sanity check.

-- 
Shawn.