Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 08:10:38PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> > Where I really need help now is in the "ideas" page:
>> >
>> >   http://git.github.io/SoC-2015-Ideas.html
>>
>> Is this too ambitious for a summer? I suspect the answer is yes, but anyway..
>>
>> Due to http limitations and stateless decision, a lot of data is sent
>> back and forth during have/want negotiation for smart-http. I wonder
>> if we could implement the "long polling" scheme in a CGI program. The
>> program terminates HTTP requests and recreates a full duplex
>> connection for upload-pack to talk to the client. upload-pack falls
>> back to the normal mode, used by git:// and ssh://.
>
> So basically Git-over-TCP-over-HTTP? :)

Yes. The hidden agenda was, if it works well, we might be able to
deprecate smart-http one day. That day, if happens, would be in far
future though. By that time hopefully we could just use http2
insteadof tcp-over-http1.

> I'm not sure it is too ambitious in terms of actual implementation time,
> but I think the design work may exceed what most students are capable
> of.

Not to mention that I think it can be man-in-the-middle attacked if
we're not careful (e.g. send to session token in unencrypted). Which
makes it less appealing to me.
-- 
Duy