From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:36:28 GMT
Subject: Re: git smart protocol via WebSockets - feedback wanted
Message-ID: <CAJo=hJtUbuWrVjVMAZirgD2O3f4TXa8YSYURSLUB5t3AD8Czig@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <jqlim2$6vt$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Stephan Peijnik <stephan@peijnik.at> wrote:
> Since I have been working on a proof of concept showing that git's smart
> protocol can be tunneled via WebSocket connections quite easily [0] I wanted
> to ask for some feedback on the idea in general and on my implementation
> [1].
>
> So, basically, what do you think about tunneling git's smart protocol via
> WebSockets (and thus HTTP)?
...
> [0]
> http://blog.sp.or.at/2012/06/git-smart-protocol-via-websockets-proof.html
> [1] https://github.com/speijnik/gitws

How does this compare with the smart HTTP protocol that has been
supported since Git 1.6.6, and uses the git-http-backend CGI at the
server side?