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Re: Corporate firewall braindamage

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Apr 10, 2008, 23:50 UTC
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Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> 
> Funny you say that.  This was a GSoC 2008 project idea.  We even
> received an application from a student for it.
> 
> The hard part is either making the server side stateful, so it can
> remember what the last RCP call had said it wants/haves, or doing a
> stateless protocol where the client uses an exponential expansion
> (or some such behavior) of its have list until the server replies
> with the pack data.
>

One easy way of doing the former is to have a session reassociator in the flow; pretty much a multiplexer which receives the HTTP request, and passes it onto a work slave (which can be an ordinary process, in fact, can be the ordinary git daemon) based on a session and sequence ID.

	-hpa
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