X-Git-Url: https://code.citadel.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=webcit-ng%2FREADME.txt;h=82c0a93cc9ccee97cbf6a43dc09c8ee98142f78c;hb=HEAD;hp=56b320021995f83c8160968f57b0f0d07465f6d0;hpb=8c84e52d8bccbca567938548ea8e1be9a10ec4e1;p=citadel.git diff --git a/webcit-ng/README.txt b/webcit-ng/README.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 56b320021..000000000 --- a/webcit-ng/README.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,36 +0,0 @@ - - -This is WebCit-NG, a complete refactoring of the WebCit server that will -focus on "REST first" and build around that. The code will be well -layered with as little spaghetti as possible. - -Please don't mess with this yet. I'm only pushing it upstream so it gets backed up. - - -DESIGN GOALS: -------------- - -* Hold as little state as possible - -* Require NO cleanup. Killing the process lets the OS reclaim all resources. - -* As much as possible, resources should be freed by just coming back down the stack. - Avoid global variables and thread-local variables as much as possible. - -* Readability of the code is more important than shaving off a few CPU cycles. - -* Throw sensitive data such as passwords back and forth in clear text. - If you want privacy, encrypt the whole session. Anything else is false security. - - - - -REST format URLs will generally take the form of: - - /ctdl/objectClass/[container/]object[/operation] - -We are using: - -* libcitadel for information about the Citadel server, some string handling, and the JSON encoder -* Expat for DAV handling -* OpenSSL for TLS