From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:11:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Git-aware HTTP transport
Message-ID: <48B784FD.3080005@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwsi0a2op.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>>> Is there a way to detect bad clients that does not obey this rule without
>>> server side states?
>> No.  Is that really a concern though?
> 
> I was more concerned about a bad/broken client not giving up forever, and
> not giving the server enough cue to give up, saying "I've conversed with
> this guy long enough but haven't reached the conclusion yet --- there is
> something wrong".  Even without server side states, if we were to trust
> clients, we can add "this is Nth round" to the protocol to help the server
> detect "long enough" part, but that somehow does not feel right.
> 

We should be able to detect either inconsistency, or lack of forward 
progress, but as long as there is forward progress made there doesn't 
seem to be a strong need to terminate.

	-hpa