[Grub-dev] do we even really need a native client

[jer]

I'm abandoning all of the old SOAP stuff in favour of the new super  
simple workunit format:
	http://dispatch.grub.swlabs.org/do/workunit

Sorry for any confusion, this is an entirely new system we're  
building, same basic principles of the old Grub though.

Jer

On Jan 10, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Martin Smith wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
>>> Right. But a client could wish to speak HTTP/1.1 There's still that
>>> problem  with the compression.
>>
>> The workunit specifies the full request, including the HTTP/1.0
>> part.  If a client is smart enough (and wants) to munge the requests
>> in the workunit into 1.1, it'll have to be smart enough to force the
>> responses back into 1.0, seems like some unnecessary work though?
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the SOAP service requires digest auth,
> which is only available for HTTP/1.1, so there's really no option  
> to use
> HTTP/1.0 to avoid the compression-whether-you-like-it-or-not issue,
> right?
>
> I was interested in doing some grub-client work for this project a  
> while
> back, but I couldn't get around the compression issue without redoing
> part of an HTTP library implementation, so I just stopped to wait for
> the bug to get fixed. I had tried to reuse existing libraries and  
> force
> HTTP/1.0, but they'd fail as soon as digest auth came up.
>
> Martin Smith, Systems Developer
> martins at bebr.ufl.edu
> Bureau of Economic and Business Research
> University of Florida
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