Re: Supporting git access via smart HTTPS protocol for musl-libc

[Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 11:09:01AM -0400, Drew DeVault wrote:
> On 2019-03-26 11:04 AM, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > Also I find you are providing https version of git.musl-libc.org site.
> > > thttpd does not supports https. Are you using stunnel for it?
> > 
> > I'm presently using haproxy's TLS-layer (vs HTTPS-layer) proxying,
> > because stunnel suggers from a 2.5-decades-old wrong handling of TCP
> > connection closing that makes it unusable, and because haproxy is what
> > I knew at the time. I think openssl s_server could handle it too, but
> > might not support SNI (?). What I'd really prefer is a non-broken
> > stunnel workalike using BearSSL as the backend, since BearSSL is the
> > only non-awful TLS implementation. If anyone wants to work on
> > something like that I'd be happy to test and eventually dogfood it on
> > musl site.
> 
> If a working haproxy solution is already in place, why not rig it up for
> cloning as well? What's the old phrase - perfect is the enemy of good,
> or something like that.

The problem is that I don't know how to hook up the smart git http
backend via cgi. Maybe you're suggesting running it on a separate
httpd with haproxy doing the routing, but that's not compatible with
TLS-layer (rather than HTTP-layer) use of haproxy, and the latter does
not work with thttpd's cgi conformance issues, nor do I want to
introduce further dependency on haproxy, which is a big hammer. I'd
rather move in the opposite direction towards something like a
non-broken version of stunnel.

Rich