Re: The git protocol and DoS

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Oct 19, 2005, 21:59 UTC
Message-ID: <4356C1BD.5060806@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vek6h43oj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
>>You mean an option on the *server* to skip the cookie exchange?  If so, 
>>how would you expect the client to handle it?
> 
> No, what I was thinking was to tell the client "you will be
> talking to an old server, so do not try to read that cookie and
> get stuck".
>

Oh, right.

	-hpa