Re: [WIP PATCH 00/14] Protocol v2 patches

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 25, 2016, 16:23 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfut6150a.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1464130008.24478.134.camel@twopensource.com>

David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> writes:

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> I was looking at this again today, and noticed that it doesn't really
> address the HTTP case.
>
> The central problem is that protocol v2 goes like this:
> server: I have capabilities w,x,y, and z
> client: I want capabilities x and z.
>
> But HTTP goes like this:
> client: [request]
> server: [response]

I wonder if that can be solved by speculative request?

Let the connection initiator say "If you can do x and z, please do so", and allow the responder to say either "OK, I can do x and z; by the way the full capabilites I support are w, x, y and z", or "Sorry, can't do that; I have capabilities w, x, and y".

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