From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "retry request without query when info/refs?query fails"
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:29:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vlig5cilt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348120680-24788-1-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> (Shawn O. Pearce's message of "Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:58:00 -0700")
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 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.
As the consequence of the above, the only two things we know about
the servers in the wild are (1) a misconfiguration that requires
this retry was once made, so it is not very unlikely others did the
same misconfiguration, and (2) those unknown number of servers have
been happily serving the current clients because the workaround
patch have been hiding the misconfiguration ever since.
But as long as the failure diagnosis from updated clients that
revert this workaround is sufficient to allow such misconfigured
servers, I think it is OK. We might see a large number of small
people having to run around and fix the configuration as a fallout,
though.
> 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.
Does that hold true also for dumb only small people installations?
They are the ones that need more help than the large installations
staffed sufficiently and run smart http gateway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-20 6:29 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 ` [PATCH] Revert "retry request without query when info/refs?query fails" Shawn O. Pearce
2012-09-20 6:29 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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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