From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:59:25 GMT
Subject: Re: The git protocol and DoS
Message-ID: <4356C1BD.5060806@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vek6h43oj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "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