Re: [PATCH] Update packfile transfer protocol documentation

Shawn O. Pearce schrieb:

Scott Chacon [off-list ref] wrote:

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+Currently only 'host' is allowed in the extra information.  It's

No.  We should make this a MUST.  As in:

	Only host-parameter is allowed in the git-proto-request.
	Clients MUST NOT attempt to send additional parameters.

Sending another header can cause older git-daemons to lock up.

I think you are making a wrong case here: Older git-daemons that lock up 
are security holes because they allow DoS attacks, and any decent admin 
will want to upgrade to a fixed git-daemon anyway.

Fixed git-daemons can allow extra information in addition to 'host'. I 
know you argued otherwise when you submitted the fix to git-daemon, but I 
think you were wrong already back then.

-- Hannes