On Fri, 18 May 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:
Many (if not most?) of the people working in a big company, I'd say.
Year, it sucks, but people having used a paranoid firewall with a
not-less-paranoid and broken proxy understand what I mean.
Well, we could try to support the git protocol over port 80..
IOW, it's probably easier to try to get people to use
git clone git://some.host:80/project
and just run git-daemon on port 80, than it is to try to set of magic cgi
scripts etc.
Doing that with virtual hosts etc should be pretty trivial. Much more so
than trying to make a git-cgi script.
And yes, I do realize that in theory you can have http-aware firewalls
that expect to see the normal http sequences in the first few packets in
order to pass things through, but I seriously doubt it's very common.
they are actually more common than you think, and getting even more common
thanks to IE
when a person browsing a hostile website will allow that website to take
over the machine the demand is created for 'malware filters' for http, to
do this the firewalls need to decode the http, and in the process limit
you to only doing legitimate http.
it's also the case that the companies that have firewalls paranoid enough
to not let you get to the git port are highly likely to be paranoid enough
to have a malware filtering http firewall.
David Lang
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