On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:17:28PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
2014-04-16 19:08 GMT+02:00 Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>:
> It would be good if systemd could
> use or extend an existing logging protocol, rather than invent yet
> another method.
>
Yes. Going by the feature page and from what I can see from
journal-remote.c, because Transfer-Encoding: chunked does not require
application-level acknowledgment from the recipient, and there is no other
mechanism to synchronize state, the proposed use of HTTP will be *losing
data*!
There's another mechanism to synchronize state: the server replies with
202 accepted after it has successfully parsed and saved the transmission to
disk. The client can send each journal entry as a single POST upload
(using the same connection, so it's not terrible inefficient).
Zbyszek