<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2014-04-16 19:08 GMT+02:00 Chris Adams <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:linux@cmadams.net" target="_blank">linux@cmadams.net</a>&gt;</span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
It would be good if systemd could<br>
use or extend an existing logging protocol, rather than invent yet<br>
another method.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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 <i>losing data</i>!<br>
<br>See <a href="http://blog.gerhards.net/2008/04/on-unreliability-of-plain-tcp-syslog.html">http://blog.gerhards.net/2008/04/on-unreliability-of-plain-tcp-syslog.html</a> and <a href="http://blog.gerhards.net/2008/05/why-you-cant-build-reliable-tcp.html">http://blog.gerhards.net/2008/05/why-you-cant-build-reliable-tcp.html</a> , and <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/relp.html">http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/relp.html</a> .  Am I missing something?<br>
</div></div>     Mirek<br></div></div>