Re: Git dumb HTTP protocol should work without update-server-info

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 9, 2025, 01:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20250909013523.GA1333147@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <aL9KOyR0eb7zAg2R@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 09:27:23PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

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> And then you have to do all of this in C with pointer arithmetic, with
> all of the terrifying security properties that has, especially because
> you can't actually use an XML parser to do it (unlike in DAV) since many
> servers have index pages that are (possibly invalid) autogenerated HTML
> 3.2 or something.

I hear you could do it in rust these days. ;) But more seriously, yes, I don't think it's a good idea. Maybe I should have been more emphatic in my original message about that. But there is nothing stopping somebody who wanted to implement such a thing for themselves, which is probably more productive than asking somebody on this list to work on it.

-Peff