From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:50:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Corporate firewall braindamage
Message-ID: <47FEA7AE.1050403@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080410233328.GQ10274@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> 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