mdw@git.distorted.org.uk Git - hippotat/blob - PROTOCOL

   1 Server maintains a queue of outbound packets for each user
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   3 Packets which are older than the applicable max_queue_time are discarded
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   5 Each incoming request to the server takes up to max_batch_down bytes
   6 from the queue and returns them as the POST response body payload
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   8 Each incoming request contains up to max_batch_up bytes of payload.
   9 It's a multipart/form-data.
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  11 Authentication: for now, plaintext password
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  13 Routing assistance: none in hippotat; can be requested on client
  14  from userv-ipif via `vroutes' parameter.  Use with secnet polypath
  15  ideally uses the special support in secnet 0.4.x.
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  17 Client form parameters (multipart/form-data):
  18  m              metadata, newline-separated list (text file) of
  19                         client ip address (textual)
  20                         password
  21                         target_requests_outstanding
  22                         http_timeout
  23  d              data (SLIP format, with SLIP_ESC and `-' swapped)
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  28 Possible future nonce-based authentication:
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  30 server keeps big nonce counter for each client
  31 meaning is:
  32  nonce counter is most recent nonce client has sent
  33 also server keeps bitmap of the previous ?64 nonces,
  34  whether client has sent them
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  36 client picks.... xxx