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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "retry request without query when info/refs?query fails"
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:58:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348120680-24788-1-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJo=hJvXtSBO3QEzhZCFfhk9OF_e0B10k8tjCUWMHZvGKt599Q@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>

This reverts commit 703e6e76a14825e5b0c960d525f34e607154b4f7.

Retrying without the query parameter was added as a workaround
for a single broken HTTP server at git.debian.org[1]. The server
was misconfigured to route every request with a query parameter
into gitweb.cgi. Admins fixed the server's configuration within
16 hours of the bug report to the Git mailing list, but we still
patched Git with this fallback and have been paying for it since.

Most Git hosting services configure the smart HTTP protocol and the
retry logic confuses users when there is a transient HTTP error as
Git dropped the real error from the smart HTTP request. Removing the
retry makes root causes easier to identify.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/137609
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 remote-curl.c | 18 ++----------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/remote-curl.c b/remote-curl.c
index 3ec474f..2359f59 100644
--- a/remote-curl.c
+++ b/remote-curl.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static struct discovery* discover_refs(const char *service)
 	struct strbuf buffer = STRBUF_INIT;
 	struct discovery *last = last_discovery;
 	char *refs_url;
-	int http_ret, is_http = 0, proto_git_candidate = 1;
+	int http_ret, is_http = 0;
 
 	if (last && !strcmp(service, last->service))
 		return last;
@@ -113,19 +113,6 @@ static struct discovery* discover_refs(const char *service)
 	refs_url = strbuf_detach(&buffer, NULL);
 
 	http_ret = http_get_strbuf(refs_url, &buffer, HTTP_NO_CACHE);
-
-	/* try again with "plain" url (no ? or & appended) */
-	if (http_ret != HTTP_OK && http_ret != HTTP_NOAUTH) {
-		free(refs_url);
-		strbuf_reset(&buffer);
-
-		proto_git_candidate = 0;
-		strbuf_addf(&buffer, "%sinfo/refs", url);
-		refs_url = strbuf_detach(&buffer, NULL);
-
-		http_ret = http_get_strbuf(refs_url, &buffer, HTTP_NO_CACHE);
-	}
-
 	switch (http_ret) {
 	case HTTP_OK:
 		break;
@@ -144,8 +131,7 @@ static struct discovery* discover_refs(const char *service)
 	last->buf_alloc = strbuf_detach(&buffer, &last->len);
 	last->buf = last->buf_alloc;
 
-	if (is_http && proto_git_candidate
-		&& 5 <= last->len && last->buf[4] == '#') {
+	if (is_http && 5 <= last->len && last->buf[4] == '#') {
 		/* smart HTTP response; validate that the service
 		 * pkt-line matches our request.
 		 */
-- 
1.7.12.1.512.g9b230e6

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-20  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-20  2:55 [PATCH] Disable dumb HTTP fallback with GIT_CURL_FALLBACK=0 Shawn O. Pearce
2012-09-20  3:22 ` Shawn Pearce
2012-09-20  3:52   ` Jeff King
2012-09-20  3:48 ` Jeff King
2012-09-20  5:57   ` Shawn Pearce
2012-09-20  5:58     ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2012-09-20  6:29       ` [PATCH] Revert "retry request without query when info/refs?query fails" Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20  6:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20 16:24         ` Jeff King
2012-09-20 16:59           ` [PATCH 0/2] smart http toggle switch fails" Jeff King
2012-09-20 17:00             ` [PATCH 1/2] remote-curl: rename is_http variable Jeff King
2012-09-20 17:05             ` [PATCH 2/2] remote-curl: let users turn off smart http Jeff King
2012-09-20 17:53               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20 18:12                 ` Jeff King
2012-09-20 18:36                   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20 20:51                     ` Jeff King
2012-09-20 21:15                       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20 21:30                         ` Jeff King
2012-09-21 17:34                           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-21 17:41                             ` Jeff King
2012-09-20 17:24     ` [PATCH] Disable dumb HTTP fallback with GIT_CURL_FALLBACK=0 Jeff King
2012-09-20 23:05       ` Shawn Pearce
2012-09-21  5:26         ` Jeff King
2012-09-21 14:19           ` Shawn Pearce
2012-10-01 21:23             ` [PATCH] Retry HTTP requests on SSL connect failures Shawn O. Pearce
2012-10-01 21:47               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-01 21:53               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-01 22:23                 ` Jeff King
2012-10-01 23:20                   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-01 22:18               ` Jeff King
2012-10-02  2:38                 ` Shawn Pearce
2012-10-02 13:57                   ` Drew Northup
2012-10-02  0:14               ` Drew Northup
2012-09-20  4:14 ` Re* [PATCH] Disable dumb HTTP fallback with GIT_CURL_FALLBACK=0 Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20  4:14   ` [PATCH 1/2] Disable dumb HTTP fallback with GIT_DUMB_HTTP_FALLBACK=false Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20  4:14   ` [PATCH 2/2] remote-curl: make dumb-http fallback configurable per URL Junio C Hamano

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