[hippotat] / PROTOCOL

Server maintains a queue of outbound packets for each user

Packets which are older than the applicable max_queue_time are discarded

Each incoming request to the server takes up to max_batch_down bytes
from the queue and returns them as the POST response body payload

Each incoming request contains up to max_batch_up bytes of payload.
It's a multipart/form-data.

Authentication: for now, plaintext password

Routing assistance: none needed; secnet polypath will DTRT

Client form parameters (multipart/form-data):
 m		metadata, newline-separated list (text file) of
			client ip address (textual)
		       	password
			target_requests_outstanding
 d              data (SLIP format)
Commit	Line	Data
3fba9787 IJ	1	Server maintains a queue of outbound packets for each user
3fba9787 IJ	2
ca732796	3	Packets which are older than the applicable max_queue_time are discarded
3fba9787	4
ca732796	5	Each incoming request to the server takes up to max_batch_down bytes
3fba9787 IJ	6	from the queue and returns them as the POST response body payload
3fba9787 IJ	7
ca732796	8	Each incoming request contains up to max_batch_up bytes of payload.
3fba9787 IJ	9	It's a multipart/form-data.
	10
	11	Authentication: for now, plaintext password
	12
3fba9787 IJ	13	Routing assistance: none needed; secnet polypath will DTRT
3fba9787 IJ	14
ca732796 IJ	15	Client form parameters (multipart/form-data):
	16	m metadata, newline-separated list (text file) of
	17	client ip address (textual)
	18	password
	19	target_requests_outstanding
ec88b1f1	20	d data (SLIP format)