Re: Revamping the git protocol

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: 2005-10-20 19:12:45
Dear diary, on Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:11:17AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> I am wondering if we can just get away with a simpler scheme
> Linus outlined instead.  One drawback of that approach is it
> does not easily allow things like challenge-response uniformly
> across different commands (admittedly we only have "upload-pack"
> command right now, but we could add list of supported commands
> easily in execute()), but you could do something along this, I
> presume?

What's wrong with my scheme? That is, _reply_ with challenge to the
upload-pack command. This should be equally powerful to the Linus'
scheme and the crucial advantage is that you do not need to tell at
the client side whether you are talking to a new server or an old one.

I was convinced that the authentication part of the challenge-resposne
isn't such a good idea after all, though. ;-)

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