Re: [PATCH 00/26] protocol version 2

> On Tue,  2 Jan 2018 16:18:02 -0800
> Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> wrote:
> 
> >  * Introduce a new remote-helper command 'connect-half-duplex' which is
> >    implemented by remote-curl (the http remote-helper).  This allows for a
> >    client to establish a half-duplex connection and use remote-curl as a proxy
> >    to wrap requests in http before sending them to the remote end and
> >    unwrapping the responses and sending them back to the client's stdin.
> 
> I'm not sure about the "half-duplex" name - it is half-duplex in that
> each side must terminate their communications with a flush, but not
> half-duplex in that request-response pairs can overlap each other (e.g.
> during negotation during fetch - there is an optimization in which the
> client tries to keep two requests pending at a time). I think that the
> idea we want to communicate is that requests and responses are always
> packetized, stateless, and always happen as a pair.
> 
> I wonder if "stateless-connect" is a better keyword - it makes sense to
> me (once described) that "stateless" implies that the client sends
> everything the server needs at once (thus, in a packet), the server
> sends everything the client needs back at once (thus, in a packet), and
> then the client must not assume any state-storing on the part of the
> server or transport.