[systemd-devel] [RFC/PATCH] journal over the network

[Adam Spragg]

On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 01:21:54 Lennart Poettering wrote:
> My intention was to speak only HTTP for all of this, so that we can
> nicely work through firewalls.

Wait, I thought one of the guiding principles of systemd was to do things The 
Right Way, and not use ugly workarounds for other people's brokenness.

If admins want to send network traffic over a port, and their firewall is 
preventing them, surely the problem is in the firewall, and the firewall 
should be fixed? Making everything HTTP-friendly to get around broken firewall 
policies is an ugly workaround which just helps perpetuate the problem.

Not to mention the fact that HTTP is a horrible protocol for almost anything 
except serving up web pages. It's effectively implements a basic 
request/response datagram protocol (albeit with arbitrarily large "packets"), 
which can only be initiated from one side, but with the overhead of HTTP 
headers and the creation of a TCP connection.


Just my ¤0.02

Adam