Re: Add Git-aware CGI for Git-aware smart HTTP transport

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Aug 13, 2008, 15:41 UTC
Message-ID: <48A300B7.10002@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080813145341.GA3782@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> 
> Hmm.  So what if the "smart" protocol used a redirect to the CGI
> and the dumb protocol didn't use any redirects at all?  I say this
> because I think the dumb protocol won't handle redirects well.
> It will do them, but it would incur a redirect on every request
> it makes.
>

That's preferrable anyway, in my opinion.

> Setting this up on a server which doesn't have the power of mod_regex
> available would be tricky, as you need to link the CGI into every
> single repository you are serving.  I don't know (or use) many other
> HTTP servers beyond Apache so I'm not sure if they can do this.

Many can, and even more can if we instead of git-http-backend had something which looked vaguely like a unique extension, like "backend.git-http"

	-hpa