1 Server maintains a queue of outbound packets for each user
3 Packets which are older than the applicable max_queue_time are discarded
5 Each incoming request to the server takes up to max_batch_down bytes
6 from the queue and returns them as the POST response body payload
8 Each incoming request contains up to max_batch_up bytes of payload.
9 It's a multipart/form-data.
11 Authentication: for now, plaintext password
13 Routing assistance: none in hippotat; can be requested on client
14 from userv-ipif via `vroutes' parameter. Use with secnet polypath
15 ideally uses the special support in secnet 0.4.x.
17 Client form parameters (multipart/form-data):
18 m metadata, newline-separated list (text file) of
19 client ip address (textual)
21 target_requests_outstanding
23 d data (SLIP format, with SLIP_ESC and `-' swapped)
27 Future nonce-based authentication:
29 server keeps big nonce counter for each client
31 nonce counter is most recent nonce client has sent
32 also server keeps bitmap of the previous ?64 nonces,
33 whether client has sent them