Protocol questions

[Brian Aker]

Hi!

You know, I don't really need to have protocol auto-negotiation. In  
fact... I think it will just make the code a bit more obscure.

What do I want?

A way to know where memcached is listening for binary. For UDP I have  
the server now just defaulting to the same port as the TCP server.  
This makes it easy.

To me the binary protocol is just an out of band protocol. I am going  
to be using it along side the text based protocol and just optimize  
around which works best at any point.

The problem is... how do I find it?

This is not a problem so much from the stand point of the developer,  
but from the stand point of the user.

Keep things simple. The more someone has to learn about memcached (or  
in my case libmemcached) the more they are not working on what they  
really care about.

Which is their own application!

Lets keep this simple, lets find a way to keep both the code clean,  
and... lets find a way to let clients know "automagically" how to do  
things.

So what do I propose? On connect the server send the client a packet  
which can be read in one read.

Tell me:
1) Is UDP on.
2) Version
3) Port for binary protocol
4) Cache implementation.
5) Total Cache size.

etc...

Cheers,
	-Brian



On Feb 29, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Dustin Sallings wrote:

>
> On Feb 28, 2008, at 19:56, Aaron Stone wrote:
>
>> +1 for keeping things on the same port because we have a magic byte  
>> to
>> differentiate protocols and to know when our server doesn't  
>> understand
>> the client's version, too!
>
>
> 	Alright, since it keeps coming up, I branched on the train this  
> morning and started to do protocol autonegotiation.  It *almost*  
> works, but one of my client tests is failing.
>
> -- 
> Dustin Sallings
>

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