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" <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Soren Hansen <so...@linux2go.dk> wrote: >> 2011/6/25 Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com>: >>> 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 > >_______________________________________________ >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
