From: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste•net>
Cc: Milan Hauth <milahu@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git dumb HTTP protocol should work without update-server-info
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 21:35:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250909013523.GA1333147@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aL9KOyR0eb7zAg2R@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net>
On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 09:27:23PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> And then you have to do all of this in C with pointer arithmetic, with
> all of the terrifying security properties that has, especially because
> you can't actually use an XML parser to do it (unlike in DAV) since many
> servers have index pages that are (possibly invalid) autogenerated HTML
> 3.2 or something.
I hear you could do it in rust these days. ;) But more seriously, yes, I
don't think it's a good idea. Maybe I should have been more emphatic in
my original message about that. But there is nothing stopping somebody
who wanted to implement such a thing for themselves, which is probably
more productive than asking somebody on this list to work on it.
-Peff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-09 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-07 11:24 Git dumb HTTP protocol should work without update-server-info Milan Hauth
2025-09-07 15:07 ` brian m. carlson
2025-09-07 17:23 ` Milan Hauth
2025-09-07 17:42 ` brian m. carlson
2025-09-08 9:40 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-08 14:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-09 5:26 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-08 0:05 ` Jeff King
2025-09-08 4:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-08 21:27 ` brian m. carlson
2025-09-09 1:35 ` Jeff King [this message]
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