From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:06:36 GMT Subject: Re: The git protocol and DoS Message-ID: <7vek6h43oj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <4356B2C7.601@zytor.com> "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > You mean an option on the *server* to skip the cookie exchange? If so, > how would you expect the client to handle it? No, what I was thinking was to tell the client "you will be talking to an old server, so do not try to read that cookie and get stuck".