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I prefer ayoung's approach to this same issue, documented here:

  https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/URLs

The service "types" (identity, image, compute, etc) are used in the URL's
to provide a consistent URL scheme.


-Dolph


On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Jesse Pretorius <jesse.pretorius at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I'm very much in favour of any public endpoints being served through ports
> 80 & 443, with the API URI's being different to differentiate them (ie
> http://hostname/auth/v2 for keystone, http://hostname/glance/v2 for
> glance, etc). This allows the use of many multi-homing solutions based on
> the URI to direct the requests to the right back-end server if one is using
> such a tool.
>
> Right now the overlap between API's makes this impossible to achieve,
> resulting is us requiring the use of many, many ports. When clients are
> accessing the API's from behind firewalls with strict rule sets or through
> proxies this becomes quite a process to have to walk through with the
> client.
>
> As far as I see it - the API paths should be more descriptive and unique
> and the ports should be configurable. This gives us the option to choose
> how to deploy it into production.
>
>
> On 18 March 2013 12:56, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
>
>> Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>> > On 2013-03-15 14:27:02 -0400 (-0400), Sean Dague wrote:
>> > [...]
>> >> Has there been any investigation by anyone going to IANA to get some
>> >> ports registered for OpenStack projects? Picking ones at random has
>> >> managed not to completely burn us up to this point, but it seems
>> >> like it would be safer to get some known ones reserved.
>> >
>> > Well, there's 35357/tcp listed with IANA as "openstack-id (OpenStack
>> > ID Service)" registered by Ziad Sawalha with Rackspace Hosting on
>> > 2011-08-15, if that helps.
>>
>> A bit of historic context:
>>
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openstack/dev/451
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openstack/dev/3153
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openstack/dev/14992
>>
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