From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephan Peijnik Subject: git smart protocol via WebSockets - feedback wanted Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:20:49 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 05 20:25:26 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SbyRX-0005ud-7A for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:25:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754507Ab2FESZR (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2012 14:25:17 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37198 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754138Ab2FESZQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2012 14:25:16 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SbyRF-0005Ry-GD for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:25:05 +0200 Received: from 178-190-4-245.adsl.highway.telekom.at ([178.190.4.245]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:25:05 +0200 Received: from stephan by 178-190-4-245.adsl.highway.telekom.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:25:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 178-190-4-245.adsl.highway.telekom.at User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dear list, 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)? Do you believe that a full implementation of this, as opposed to the current proof of concept, is worthwhile? Are there any issues with this approach I missed (apart from the missing authentication/authorization in the server component of course)? Thanks in advance for your input. Regards, Stephan [0] http://blog.sp.or.at/2012/06/git-smart-protocol-via-websockets-proof.html [1] https://github.com/speijnik/gitws