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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

So, I gather you're agreeing with me? :)

-jay

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Bryan Taylor <btaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If we use something other than 80 for http and/or 443 for https, then
> clients will have to know magic numbers for the port and firewall
> obstacles will annoy them. I don't see HTTP as something we just happen to
> have chosen. We should prefer convention over configuration, and embrace
> the conventions of HTTP.
>
> On 6/26/11 11:13 AM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 2011/6/25 Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> Can you explain why having the *default* port be 80/8080 for HTTP
>>>> services would hinder that? Unless I'm mistaken, spinning up servers
>>>> on different ports is as simple as specifying a set of test config
>>>> files that have ports set for an all-on-one-machine setup?
>>>
>>> I've heard this sort of argument before, and I've never quite
>>>understood it.
>>>
>>> Yes, our API happens to be built on top of HTTP, but why must that
>>> bleed into the choice of port number? I think of port  80 not so much
>>> as "the HTTP port", but rather "the www port" (and 8080 as the
>>> unprivileged www port).
>>>
>>> Say we had come up with our own basic, generic protocol, on top of
>>> which we'd built the Glance API, Nova API, Swift API, etc... Would you
>>> want them to have assigned a single port as well, just because their
>>> API's all were encapsulated in the same generic protocol?
>>
>>If we develop APIs on top of other protocols, I'd expect them to be
>>different ports.
>>
>>All I'm saying is that our services (except for Burrow, which has
>>non-HTTP choices) are HTTP services, and since 80 is the default port
>>for HTTP, I think it's natural for our services to run on 80. I hear
>>the other arguments, though. Just offering my opinion. :)
>>
>>-jay
>>
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