wip config reorg
[hippotat] / 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 needed; secnet polypath will DTRT
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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
20 d data (SLIP format)