From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:14:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git+http:// proof-of-concept (not using CONNECT)
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0907071712580.30197@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20090703202839.GB12072@dcvr.yhbt.net>

On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Eric Wong wrote:
>
> That and my approach requires both the client and server to be
> simutaneously sending and receiving responses in full-duplex channel
> which makes it impossible to work without chunking.  IOW, there's no
> chance any HTTP proxy that dechunks or queues/coalesces chunked
> requests/responses can work with my approach.

Many HTTP servers will not be able to support it either because HTTP is a
half-duplex protocol (modulo request pipelining).

Tony.
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