Re: Git Daemon Dummy: 301 Redirects for git:// to https://

From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Feb 23, 2016, 10:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20160223105159.GJ1766@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9rTpGNHMKbXD48oBYm136=u79YiHjX5hm8ZYC4xSThJsA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 03:32:02AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:

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> In case anyone else finds this useful, I wrote this:
> 
> https://git.zx2c4.com/git-daemon-dummy/about/
> 
> It's an epoll-based responder for git:// that simply returns an error
> telling users of a new URI. The purpose is to phase out git-daemon in
> favor of more secure TLS/HTTPS endpoints. With HTTPS certificates now
> being free, seems like this could be useful.
> 
> My personal motivation is that I'd like to just totally kill the
> git-daemon service, but somebody hard coded a URI of mine into a real
> printed textbook [1], so I don't want it to go stale suddenly. So, I
> need some way of informing users of the new URI.
> 
> Let me know what you think.