git@vger.kernel.org mailing list mirror (one of many)
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: "J.H." <warthog9@eaglescrag.net>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/18] gitweb: add isDumbClient() check
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:15:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D02D0C4.2020207@eaglescrag.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201012110115.16225.jnareb@gmail.com>

On 12/10/2010 04:15 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "J.H." <warthog9@eaglescrag.net> writes:
>>
>>> My initial look indicated that perl-http-browserdetect wasn't available
>>> for RHEL / CentOS 5 - it is however available in EPEL.
>>>
>>> However there are a couple of things to note about User Agents at all:
>>> 	- They lie... a lot
>>> 	- Robots lie even more
>>>
>>> Blacklisting is still the better option, by a lot.  I'll re-work this
>>> some in v9, as I'm fine with the added dependency.
>>
>> Thanks, both.  I sense that we finally are going to get a single version
>> of gitweb that can be used at larger sites ;-)
> 
> I wouldn't be so optimistic.  While we borrow features and ideas from
> each other, the difference still remains that J.H. patches are bit hacky
> but are tested, while my rewrite is IMHO cleaner but untested (well, 
> untested on real life load).

At this point I'm not sure there is a way to rectify the two patch
series, and while we may borrow ideas from each other it's becoming
clear that we are both, generally speaking, heading in different
directions for what we want and need out of gitweb.  Jakub's patches for
the admin page are indicative of that.

> Anyway the main issue that was discovered by PATCHv6 by me, and v8 by J.H.
> is that die_error sucks... well, at least if background caching is enabled.

I'd agree with that, and as such I'm working on a complete re-work of
error handling in gitweb for v9.  Things are looking pretty good so far,
but to claim that it's a non-invasive patch would be akin to selling
someone the Brooklyn bridge.

That said, the way Gitweb handles it's errors and things like exit are
appalling and this has been something that's needed doing for a while
anyway.  Guess now's the time to do it.  Might be a few days for me to
get far enough for any of it to be worthwhile sharing, late next week
maybe.  That said I hit vacation starting on the 20th so it might be
next year before that is finalized.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-11  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-09 21:57 [PATCH 00/18] Gitweb caching v8 John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 01/18] gitweb: Prepare for splitting gitweb John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 23:30   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 02/18] gitweb: add output buffering and associated functions John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 03/18] gitweb: File based caching layer (from git.kernel.org) John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 04/18] gitweb: Minimal testing of gitweb caching John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 05/18] gitweb: Regression fix concerning binary output of files John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 23:33   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 06/18] gitweb: Add more explicit means of disabling 'Generating...' page John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 07/18] gitweb: Revert back to $cache_enable vs. $caching_enabled John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 23:38   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  2:38     ` J.H.
2010-12-10 13:48       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 08/18] gitweb: Change is_cacheable() to return true always John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 23:46   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 09/18] gitweb: Revert reset_output() back to original code John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-09 23:58   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  2:43     ` J.H.
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 10/18] gitweb: Adding isBinaryAction() and isFeedAction() to determine the action type John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  0:06   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  3:39     ` J.H.
2010-12-10 12:10       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10 12:25         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 11/18] gitweb: add isDumbClient() check John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  0:12   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  4:00     ` J.H.
2010-12-11  0:07       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-11  0:15         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-11  1:15           ` J.H. [this message]
2010-12-11  1:40             ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 12/18] gitweb: Change file handles (in caching) to lexical variables as opposed to globs John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  0:16   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  0:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-10  0:47       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  5:56       ` J.H.
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 13/18] gitweb: Add commented url & url hash to page footer John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  0:26   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  6:10     ` J.H.
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 14/18] gitweb: add print_transient_header() function for central header printing John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  0:36   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  6:18     ` J.H.
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 15/18] gitweb: Add show_warning() to display an immediate warning, with refresh John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  1:01   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  7:38     ` J.H.
2010-12-10 14:10       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 16/18] gitweb: When changing output (STDOUT) change STDERR as well John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  1:36   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-12  5:25     ` J.H.
2010-12-12 15:17       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 17/18] gitweb: Prepare for cached error pages & better error page handling John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  1:49   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  8:33     ` J.H.
2010-12-10 20:33       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 21:57 ` [PATCH 18/18] gitweb: Add better error handling for gitweb caching John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2010-12-10  1:56   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 23:26 ` [PATCH 00/18] Gitweb caching v8 Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  0:43   ` J.H.
2010-12-10  1:27     ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10  0:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-10  0:45   ` J.H.

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4D02D0C4.2020207@eaglescrag.net \
    --to=warthog9@eaglescrag.net \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=gitster@pobox.com \
    --cc=jnareb@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).