[PATCH 2/3] http: normalize curl results for dumb loose and alternates fetches

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

If the dumb-http walker encounters a 404 when fetching a loose object,
it then looks at any http-alternates for the object. The 404 check is
implemented by missing_target(), which checks not only the http code,
but also that we got an http error from the CURLcode.

That broke when we stopped using CURLOPT_FAILONERROR in 17966c0a63
(http: avoid disconnecting on 404s for loose objects, 2016-07-11), since
our CURLcode will now be CURLE_OK. As a result, fetching over dumb-http
from a repository with alternates could result in Git printing "Unable
to find abcd1234..." and aborting.

We could probably fix this just by loosening missing_target(). However,
there's other code which looks at the curl result, and it would have to
be tweaked as well. Instead, let's just normalize the result the same
way the smart-http code does.

There's a similar case in processing the alternates (where we failover
from "info/http-alternates" to "info/alternates"). We'll give it the
same treatment.

After this patch, we should be hitting all code paths that need this
normalization (notably absent here is the http_pack_request path, but it
does not use FAILONERROR, nor missing_target()).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 http-walker.c              |  8 ++++++++
 t/t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/http-walker.c b/http-walker.c
index 8ae5d76c6a..745436921d 100644
--- a/http-walker.c
+++ b/http-walker.c
@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ static void process_object_response(void *callback_data)
 	process_http_object_request(obj_req->req);
 	obj_req->state = COMPLETE;
 
+	normalize_curl_result(&obj_req->req->curl_result,
+			      obj_req->req->http_code,
+			      obj_req->req->errorstr,
+			      sizeof(obj_req->req->errorstr));
+
 	/* Use alternates if necessary */
 	if (missing_target(obj_req->req)) {
 		fetch_alternates(walker, alt->base);
@@ -208,6 +213,9 @@ static void process_alternates_response(void *callback_data)
 	char *data;
 	int i = 0;
 
+	normalize_curl_result(&slot->curl_result, slot->http_code,
+			      curl_errorstr, sizeof(curl_errorstr));
+
 	if (alt_req->http_specific) {
 		if (slot->curl_result != CURLE_OK ||
 		    !alt_req->buffer->len) {
diff --git a/t/t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh b/t/t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh
index 6d7d88ccc9..694b77c855 100755
--- a/t/t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh
+++ b/t/t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh
@@ -408,5 +408,21 @@ test_expect_success 'print HTTP error when any intermediate redirect throws erro
 	test_i18ngrep "unable to access.*/redir-to/502" stderr
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'fetching via http alternates works' '
+	parent=$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/alt-parent.git &&
+	git init --bare "$parent" &&
+	git -C "$parent" --work-tree=. commit --allow-empty -m foo &&
+	git -C "$parent" update-server-info &&
+	commit=$(git -C "$parent" rev-parse HEAD) &&
+
+	child=$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/alt-child.git &&
+	git init --bare "$child" &&
+	echo "../../alt-parent.git/objects" >"$child/objects/info/alternates" &&
+	git -C "$child" update-ref HEAD $commit &&
+	git -C "$child" update-server-info &&
+
+	git -c http.followredirects=true clone "$HTTPD_URL/dumb/alt-child.git"
+'
+
 stop_httpd
 test_done
-- 
2.21.0.705.g64cb90f133