On Oct 4, 2010, at 3:47 AM, David Schmitt wrote:
> On 10/4/2010 11:24 AM, Aurelien Degremont wrote:
>> Luke Kanies a écrit :
>>> I completely agree that there should continue to be REST support. My
>>> question is whether there's significant value to keeping REST as the
>>> primary communication mechanism, and if so, what is it?
>>>
>>
>> I totally agree with Jeff McCune regarding REST.
>
> +1
>
>> I can imagine implementing a fileserver only using Apache with url
>> redirection and SSL feature (only environment could be a bit tricky) and
>> so benefits from Apache features and scalability. This could not be
>> possible if Puppet has its own protocol.
>>
>> Moreover Puppet needs stability. I do not imagine that after moving from
>> XMLRPC to REST, you will switch again to something else.
>
> +1
>
> And also HTTP is easily tunneled and filtered through various firewalls.
> Other protocols may need special rules and/or can only be protected at lower
> levels.
I think we'll always be able to use HTTP as an option, so this won't be a
problem. But yeah, it would obviously need different ports and such if it's
not HTTP.
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