From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:00:41 GMT
Subject: Re: More on git over HTTP POST
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0808022257470.25900@yvahk3.pbagnpgbe.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20080802205702.GA24723@spearce.org>

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Well, over git:// (or any protocol that wraps git:// like ssh) we assume a 
> full-duplex channel.  Some proxy systems are able to do such a channel. 
> HTTP however does not offer it.

Yes it does. The CONNECT method is used to get a full-duplex channel to a 
remote site through a HTTP proxy. The downside with that is of course that 
most proxies are setup to disallow CONNECT to other ports than 443 (the https 
default port).

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