[mosh-devel] Agent support vs. generic "out of band" -data

[Keith Winstein]

Hi Timo,

Sounds reasonable.

-Keith

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Timo J. Rinne <tri at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi
>
> After more or less carefully going through the code, I've changed my
> mind.  I think most elegant and straightforward way to implement agent
> forwarding is to implement a generic out of band mechanism that
> piggybacks on top of the transport packets.  I made some experiments
> with agent specific solution and in order to get that work properly, 99%
> of the work needed for generic pluggable layer is required, but instead
> of having a generic extension mechanism, code just would get infested by
> agent specific hacks.
>
> I think I'll start again from master branch and implement the extension
> mechanism and then plug in the agent stuff and finally be done with it.
>
> Regards,
> //Rinne
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