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Draft 1 of a complete [[P2P_protocol]] over HTTP.
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## base64 encoding of keys, uuids, and filenames
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A git-annex key can contain text in any encoding. So can a filename,
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and it's even possible, though unlikely, that the UUID of a git-annex
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repository might.
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But this protocol requires that UTF-8 be used throughout, except
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where bodies use `Content-Type: application/octet-stream`.
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So, all git-annex keys, uuids, and filenames in this protocol are
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base64 encoded.
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## authentication
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A git-annex protocol endpoint can optionally operate in readonly mode without
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authentication.
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Authentication is required to make any changes.
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Authentication is done using HTTP basic auth.
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The user is recommended to only authenticate over HTTPS, since otherwise
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HTTP basic auth (as well as git-annex data) can be snooped. But some users
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may want git-annex to use HTTP in eg a LAN.
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## protocol version
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Each request in the protocol is versioned. The versions correspond
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to P2P protocol versions.
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The protocol version comes before the request. Eg: `/git-annex/v3/put`
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If the server does not support a particular protocol version, the
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request will fail with a 404, and the client should fall back to an earlier
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protocol version.
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## common request parameters
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Every request supports these common parameters, and unless documented
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otherwise, a request requires both of them to be included.
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* `clientuuid`
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The value is the UUID of the git-annex repository of the client.
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* `serveruuid`
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The value is the UUID of the git-annex repository that the server
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should serve.
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Any request may also optionally include these parameters:
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* `bypass`
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The value is the UUID of a cluster gateway, which the server should avoid
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connecting to when serving a cluster. This is the equivilant of the
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`BYPASS` message in the [[P2P_Protocol]].
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This parameter can be given multiple times to list several cluster
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gateway UUIDs.
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This parameter is only available for v2 and above.
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[Internally, git-annex can use these common parameters, plus the protocol
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version, to create a P2P session. The P2P session is driven through
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the AUTH, VERSION, and BYPASS messages, leaving the session ready to
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service requests.]
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## requests
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### GET /git-annex/key/$key
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This is a simple, unversioned interface to get a key from the server.
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It is not part of the P2P protocol per se, but is provided to let
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other clients than git-annex easily download the content of keys from the
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http server.
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When the key is not present on the server, this returns a 404 Not Found.
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### GET /git-annex/v3/key/$key
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Get the content of a key from the server.
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This is designed so it can be used both by a peer in the P2P protocol,
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and by a regular HTTP client that just wants to download a file.
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Example:
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> GET /git-annex/v3/key/SHA1--foo&associatedfile=bar&clientuuid=79a5a1f4-07e8-11ef-873d-97f93ca91925&serveruuid=ecf6d4ca-07e8-11ef-8990-9b8c1f696bf6 HTTP/1.1
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< X-git-annex-data-length: 3
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< Content-Type: application/octet-stream
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<
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< foo
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The key to get is the part of the url after "/git-annex/vN/key/"
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and before any url parameters.
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All parameters are optional, including the common parameters, and these:
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* `associatedfile`
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The name of a file in the git repository, for informational purposes
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only.
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* `offset`
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Number of bytes to skip sending from the beginning of the file.
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Request headers are currently ignored, so eg Range requests are
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not supported. (This would be possible to implement, up to a point.)
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The body of the request is empty.
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The server's response will have a `Content-Type` header of
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`application/octet-stream`.
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The server's response will have a `X-git-annex-data-length`
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header that indicates the number of bytes of content that are expected to
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be sent. Note that there is no Content-Length header.
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The body of the response is the content of the key.
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If the length of the body is different than what the the
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X-git-annex-data-length header indicated, then the data is invalid and
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should not be used. This can happen when eg, the data was being sent from
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an unlocked annexed file, which got modified while it was being sent.
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When the content is not present, the server will respond with
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422 Unprocessable Content.
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### GET /git-annex/v2/key/$key
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Identical to v3.
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### GET /git-annex/v1/key/$key
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Identical to v3.
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### GET /git-annex/v0/key/$key
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Same as v3, except the X-git-annex-data-length header is not used.
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Additional checking client-side will be required to validate the data.
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### POST /git-annex/v3/checkpresent
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Checks if a key is currently present on the server.
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Example:
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> POST /git-annex/v3/checkpresent?key=SHA1--foo&clientuuid=79a5a1f4-07e8-11ef-873d-97f93ca91925&serveruuid=ecf6d4ca-07e8-11ef-8990-9b8c1f696bf6 HTTP/1.1
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< {"present": true}
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There is one required additional parameter, `key`.
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The body of the request is empty.
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The server responds with a JSON object with a "present" field that is true
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if the key is present, or false if it is not present.
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### POST /git-annex/v2/checkpresent
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Identical to v3.
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### POST /git-annex/v1/checkpresent
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Identical to v3.
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### POST /git-annex/v0/checkpresent
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Identical to v3.
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### POST /git-annex/v3/lockcontent
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Locks the content of a key on the server, preventing it from being removed.
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Example:
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> POST /git-annex/v3/lockcontent?key=SHA1--foo&clientuuid=79a5a1f4-07e8-11ef-873d-97f93ca91925&serveruuid=ecf6d4ca-07e8-11ef-8990-9b8c1f696bf6 HTTP/1.1
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< {"locked": true}
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There is one required additional parameter, `key`.
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The server will return `{"locked": true}` if it was able to lock the key,
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or `{"locked": false}` if it was not.
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The key will remain locked for 10 minutes. But, usually `keeplocked`
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is used to control the lifetime of the lock. (See below.)
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### POST /git-annex/v2/lockcontent
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Identical to v3.
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### POST /git-annex/v1/lockcontent
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Identical to v3.
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### POST /git-annex/v0/lockcontent
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Identical to v3.
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### POST /git-annex/v3/keeplocked
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Controls the lifetime of a lock on a key that was earlier obtained
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with `lockcontent`.
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Example:
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> POST /git-annex/v3/keeplocked?key=SHA1--foo&clientuuid=79a5a1f4-07e8-11ef-873d-97f93ca91925&serveruuid=ecf6d4ca-07e8-11ef-8990-9b8c1f696bf6 HTTP/1.1
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> Connection: Keep-Alive
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> Keep-Alive: timeout=1200
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[some time later]
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> {"unlock": true}
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< {"locked": false}
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There is one required additional parameter, `key`.
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This uses long polling. So it's important to use
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Connection and Keep-Alive headers.
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This keeps an active lock from expiring until the client sends
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`{"unlock": true}`, and then it immediately unlocks it.
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The client can send `{"unlock": false}` any number of times first.
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This has no effect, but may be useful to keep the connection alive.
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This must be called within ten minutes of `lockcontent`, otherwise
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the lock will have already expired when this runs. Note that this
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does not indicate if the lock expired, it always returns
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`{"locked": false}`.
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If the connection is closed before the client sends `{"unlock": true},
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or even if the web server gets shut down, the content will remain
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locked for 10 minutes from the time it was first locked.
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### POST /git-annex/v2/keeplocked
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Identical to v3.
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### POST /git-annex/v1/keeplocked
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Identical to v3.
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### POST /git-annex/v0/keeplocked
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Identical to v3.
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### POST /git-annex/v3/remove
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Remove a key's content from the server.
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Example:
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> POST /git-annex/v3/remove?key=SHA1--foo&clientuuid=79a5a1f4-07e8-11ef-873d-97f93ca91925&serveruuid=ecf6d4ca-07e8-11ef-8990-9b8c1f696bf6 HTTP/1.1
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< {"removed": true}
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There is one required additional parameter, `key`.
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The body of the request is empty.
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The server responds with a JSON object with a "removed" field that is true
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if the key was removed (or was not present on the server),
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or false if the key was not able to be removed.
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The JSON object can have an additional field "plusuuids" that is a list of
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UUIDs of other repositories that the content was removed from.
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If the server does not allow removing the key due to a policy
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(eg due to being read-only or append-only), it will respond with a JSON
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object with an "error" field that has an error message as its value.
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### POST /git-annex/v2/remove
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Identical to v3.
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### POST /git-annex/v1/remove
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Same as v3, except the JSON will not include "plusuuids".
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### POST /git-annex/v0/remove
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Identival to v1.
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## POST /git-annex/v3/remove-before
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Remove a key's content from the server, but only before a specified time.
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Example:
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> POST /git-annex/v3/remove-before?timestamp=4949292929&key=SHA1--foo&clientuuid=79a5a1f4-07e8-11ef-873d-97f93ca91925&serveruuid=ecf6d4ca-07e8-11ef-8990-9b8c1f696bf6 HTTP/1.1
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< {"removed": true}
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This is the same as the `remove` request, but with an additional parameter,
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`timestamp`.
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If the server's monotonic clock is past the specified timestamp, the
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removal will fail and the server will respond with: `{"removed": false}`
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This is used to avoid removing content after a point in
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time where it is no longer locked in other repostitories.
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## POST /git-annex/v3/gettimestamp
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Gets the current timestamp from the server.
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Example:
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> POST /git-annex/v3/gettimestamp?clientuuid=79a5a1f4-07e8-11ef-873d-97f93ca91925&serveruuid=ecf6d4ca-07e8-11ef-8990-9b8c1f696bf6 HTTP/1.1
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< {"timestamp": 59459392}
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The body of the request is empty.
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The server responds with JSON object with a timestmap field that has the
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current value of its monotonic clock, as a number of seconds.
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Important: If multiple servers are serving this protocol for the same
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repository, they MUST all use the same monotonic clock.
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### POST /git-annex/v3/put
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Store content on the server.
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Example:
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> POST /git-annex/v3/put?key=SHA1--foo&associatedfile=bar&clientuuid=79a5a1f4-07e8-11ef-873d-97f93ca91925&serveruuid=ecf6d4ca-07e8-11ef-8990-9b8c1f696bf6 HTTP/1.1
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> Content-Type: application/octet-stream
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> X-git-annex-data-length: 3
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> foo
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< {"stored": true}
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There is one required additional parameter, `key`.
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There are are also these optional parameters:
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* `associatedfile`
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The name of a file in the git repository, for informational purposes
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only.
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* `offset`
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Number of bytes that have been omitted from the beginning of the file.
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Usually this will be determined by making a `putoffset` request.
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The `Content-Type` header should be `application/octet-stream`.
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The `X-git-annex-data-length` must be included. It indicates the number
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of bytes of content that are expected to be sent.
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Note that there is no need to send a Content-Length header.
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If the length of the body is different than what the the
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X-git-annex-data-length header indicated, then the data is invalid and
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should not be used. This can happen when eg, the data was being sent from
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an unlocked annexed file, which got modified while it was being sent.
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The server responds with a JSON object with a field "stored"
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that is true if it received the data and stored the
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content.
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The JSON object can have an additional field "plusuuids" that is a list of
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UUIDs of other repositories that the content was stored to.
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If the server does not allow storing the key due eg to a policy
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(eg due to being read-only or append-only), or due to the data being
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invalid, or because it ran out of disk space, it will respond with a
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JSON object with an "error" field that has an error message as its value.
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### POST /git-annex/v2/put
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Identical to v3.
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### POST /git-annex/v1/put
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Same as v3, except the JSON will not include "plusuuids".
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### POST /git-annex/v0/put
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Same as v1, except there is no X-git-annex-data-length header.
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Additional checking client-side will be required to validate the data.
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### POST /git-annex/v3/putoffset
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Asks the server what `offset` can be used in a `put` of a key.
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This should usually be used right before sending a `put` request.
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The offset may not be valid after some point in time, which could result in
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the `put` request failing.
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Example:
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> POST /git-annex/v3/putoffset?key=SHA1--foo&clientuuid=79a5a1f4-07e8-11ef-873d-97f93ca91925&serveruuid=ecf6d4ca-07e8-11ef-8990-9b8c1f696bf6 HTTP/1.1
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< {"offset": 10}
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There is one required additional parameter, `key`.
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The body of the request is empty.
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The server responds with a JSON object with an "offset" field that
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is the largest allowable offset.
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If the server already has the content of the key, it will respond with a
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JSON object with an "alreadyhave" field that is set to true. This JSON
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object may also have a field "plusuuids" that lists
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the UUIDs of other repositories where the content is stored, in addition to
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the serveruuid.
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If the server does not allow storing the key due to a policy
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(eg due to being read-only or append-only), it will respond with a JSON
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object with an "error" field that has an error message as its value.
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[Implementation note: This will be implemented by sending `PUT` and
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returning the `PUT-FROM` offset. To avoid leaving the P2P protocol stuck
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part way through a `PUT`, a synthetic empty `DATA` followed by `INVALID`
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will be used to get the P2P protocol back into a state where it will accept
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any request.]
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### POST /git-annex/v2/putoffset
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Identical to v3.
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### POST /git-annex/v1/putoffset
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Same as v3, except the JSON will not include "plusuuids".
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## parts of P2P protocol that are not supported over HTTP
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`NOTIFYCHANGE` is not supported, but it would be possible to extend
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this HTTP protocol to support it.
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`CONNECT` is not supported, and due to the bi-directional message passing
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nature of it, it cannot easily be done over HTTP (would need websockets).
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It should not be necessary anyway, because the git repository itself can be
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accessed over HTTP.
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