[PATCH 02 of 15] speedy: stub history query server

Kevin Bullock kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org
Thu Dec 13 15:53:15 UTC 2012


On 13 Dec 2012, at 3:07 AM, Idan Kamara wrote:

> (you're top posting)
> 
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Tomasz Kłeczek
> <tomasz.kleczek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks. One problem that i see right away is that command server protocol
>> doesn't allow you to send newlines in the data section.
>> Communication between speedy client and server requires sending potentially
>> big amount of binary data over the network and I would
>> like to avoid overhead such as base64 encoding..
> 
> The data section has no restrictions on what it contains.
> 
> You could be confused with the hello message that has a specific
> format (which uses new lines to separate fields).

+1 for reusing a protocol we've already got.

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