Re: Corporate firewall braindamage

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@kernel.org>
Date: Apr 11, 2008, 01:03 UTC
Message-ID: <47FEB8E4.3070306@kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <47FEA7AE.1050403@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

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> 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.
>

s/multiplexer/demultiplexer/

The best might be to turn the demultiplexer either into an Apache module or some scripting language which can run inside Apache (e.g. mod_perl) to avoid Apache spawning a CGI program which is only used to talk to the git daemon backend.

	-hpa