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While it was technically interesting and fun to tunnel arbitrary
protocols over a semi-compliant Rack interface, nobody actually does
it (and anybody who does can look in our git history). This was
from back in 2009 when this was one of the few servers that could
handle chunked uploads,were one of the few users of chunked uploads,
nowadays everyone does it! (or do they? :)
A newer version of exec_cgi.rb still lives on in the repository of
yet another horribly-named server, but there's no point in bloating
the installation footprint of somewhat popular server such as unicorn.
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Now that upstream curl supports this functionality, there's
no reason to duplicate it here as an example.
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This includes an example of tunneling the git protocol inside a
TE:chunked HTTP request. The example is unfortunately contrived
in that it relies on the custom examples/cat-chunk-proxy.rb
script in the client. My initial wish was to have a generic
tool like curl(1) operate like this:
cat > ~/bin/cat-chunk-proxy.sh <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
exec curl -sfNT- http://$1:$2/
EOF
chmod +x ~/bin/cat-chunk-proxy.sh
GIT_PROXY_COMMAND=cat-chunk-proxy.sh git clone git://0:8080/foo
Unfortunately, curl will attempt a blocking read on stdin before
reading the TCP socket; causing the git-clone consumer to
starve. This does not appear to be a problem with the new
server code for handling chunked requests.
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