From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "brian m. carlson" Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] Update documentation for http.continue option Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 22:35:45 +0000 Message-ID: <1381530945-90590-3-git-send-email-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> References: <1381530945-90590-1-git-send-email-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Cc: =?UTF-8?q?Nguy=E1=BB=85n=20Th=C3=A1i=20Ng=E1=BB=8Dc=20Duy?= , Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Shawn Pearce To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 12 00:36:01 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VUlJQ-0003FK-J2 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 00:36:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752692Ab3JKWfx (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:35:53 -0400 Received: from castro.crustytoothpaste.net ([173.11.243.49]:32966 "EHLO castro.crustytoothpaste.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751828Ab3JKWfv (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:35:51 -0400 Received: from vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net (vauxhall.local [172.16.2.247]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by castro.crustytoothpaste.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 489F42807F; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 22:35:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.4.236.g382490f.dirty In-Reply-To: <1381530945-90590-1-git-send-email-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Explain the reason for and behavior of the new http.continue option, and that it is disabled by default. Furthermore, explain that it is required for large GSS-Negotiate requests but incompatible with some proxies. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson --- Documentation/config.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index fca7749..461c9dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1516,6 +1516,15 @@ http.postBuffer:: massive pack file locally. Default is 1 MiB, which is sufficient for most requests. +http.continue:: + Ensure that authentication succeeds before sending the pack data when + POSTing data using the smart HTTP transport. This is done by + requesting a 100 Continue response. For requests larger than + 'http.postBuffer', this is required when using GSS-Negotiate + (Kerberos) authentication over HTTP. However, some proxies do not + handle the protocol exchange gracefully; for them, this option must be + disabled. Defaults to disabled. + http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime:: If the HTTP transfer speed is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit' for longer than 'http.lowSpeedTime' seconds, the transfer is aborted. -- 1.8.4.rc3