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

[Yousef Ourabi]

Martin, here is the direct link, also relevant are the mailing list 
discussions of this month.

http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/grub-dev/2007-November/000010.html


Martin Smith wrote:
> Jer, I'm lost. Is there a pointer you could provide me with for this new system? How does this affect dev.grub.org's Trac?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grub-dev-bounces at wikia.com on behalf of jer
> Sent: Thu 1/10/2008 3:02 PM
> To: Grub.org Development
> Subject: Re: [Grub-dev] do we even really need a native client
>  
> 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
>> (352) 392-0171 Ext. 221
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