From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:02:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] Add Git-aware CGI for Git-aware smart HTTP transport
Message-ID: <4897B4A5.4030700@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080805015717.GB383@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> I guess we need to ask client implementations to honor a redirect
> on the first request and reuse that new base URL for all subsequent
> requests that are part of the same "operation".  Then server farms
> can issue a redirect to a server-specific hostname if a client
> comes in with a round-robin DNS hostname, thus ensuring that for
> this current operation there isn't skew.
> 

Either that, or you can pass a "chase URL" in the payload of the 
request... it's more or less the same concept.

	-hpa