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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
	rctay89@gmail•com, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document the HTTP transport protocols
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:45:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqsiy2uble.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1377092713-25434-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> ("Nguyễn	Thái Ngọc Duy"'s message of "Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:45:13 +0700")

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail•com> writes:

>  This is basically the version from Tay Ray Chuan [1] with one more
>  proofreading round from me. My changes besides realignments are below.
>  There are TODOs remain but I think the document is valuable as it is.

Thanks.

>  On the topic, C Git's (maybe) violations on this spec are:
>  
>   - The client does not strip trailing slashes from $GIT_URL before
>     sending to the server, as described in section "URL Format".
>  
>   - The client does not check that HTTP status code is either 200 or
>     304 when receiving response in discovering references phase.
>
>   - The client verifies the first 5 bytes against pattern
>     "^[0-9a-fA-F]{4}#" instead of "^[0-9a-f]{4}#" as described in
>     section "discovering references".

Perhaps add these to "small projects ideas"?  The last one may want
to be phrased a bit better, though.  I needed to read it twice to
realize that you are saying "the client accepts hexadecimal using
uppercase alphabets where it should not".

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-21 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-21 13:45 [PATCH] Document the HTTP transport protocols Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-08-21 18:45 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-08-21 22:00 ` Jeff King
2013-08-22 11:27   ` Duy Nguyen

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