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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
	Florian Manschwetus <manschwetus@cs-software-gmbh.de>,
	Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>,
	Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@007spb.ru>,
	"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH as specified by rfc3875
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 22:07:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1skcjqer.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171203024958.GA31493@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 2 Dec 2017 21:49:58 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... Eventually our fill() will block trying to get data that is
> not there. On an Apache server, the webserver would know there is
> nothing left to send us and close() the pipe, and we'd get EOF.
> But on IIS, I think the pipe remains open and we'd just block
> indefinitely trying to read().

Ah, yeah, under that scenario, trusting content-length and trying to
read, waiting for input that would never come, will be a problem,
and it would probably want to get documented.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-03  6:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-29 10:38 [PATCH] Fix http-backend reading till EOF, ignoring CONTENT_LENGTH, violating rfc3875 -- WAS: Problem with git-http-backend.exe as iis cgi Florian Manschwetus
2016-03-29 20:13 ` Jeff King
2016-03-30  9:08   ` AW: " Florian Manschwetus
2016-04-01 23:55     ` Jeff King
2017-11-23 23:45       ` [PATCH] http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH as specified by rfc3875 Max Kirillov
2017-11-24  1:30         ` Eric Sunshine
2017-11-25 21:47           ` Max Kirillov
2017-11-26  0:38             ` Eric Sunshine
2017-11-26  0:43               ` Max Kirillov
2017-11-24  5:54         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-24  8:30           ` AW: " Florian Manschwetus
2017-11-26  1:50           ` Max Kirillov
2017-11-26  1:47         ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " Max Kirillov
2017-11-26  1:47           ` [PATCH v4 1/2] " Max Kirillov
2017-11-26  1:47             ` [PATCH v4 2/2] t5560-http-backend-noserver.sh: add CONTENT_LENGTH cases Max Kirillov
2017-11-26  1:54         ` [PATCH v5 0/2] http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH as specified by rfc3875 Max Kirillov
2017-11-26  1:54           ` [PATCH v5 1/2] " Max Kirillov
2017-11-26  3:46             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-26  8:13               ` Max Kirillov
2017-11-26  9:38                 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-26 19:39                   ` Max Kirillov
2017-11-26  1:54           ` [PATCH v5 2/2] t5560-http-backend-noserver.sh: add CONTENT_LENGTH cases Max Kirillov
2017-11-26 19:38           ` [PATCH v6 0/2] http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH as specified by rfc3875 Max Kirillov
2017-11-26 19:38             ` [PATCH v6 1/2] " Max Kirillov
2017-11-26 22:08               ` Eric Sunshine
2017-11-29  3:22               ` Jeff King
2017-12-03  1:02                 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-03  2:49                   ` Jeff King
2017-12-03  6:07                     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-12-04  7:18                       ` AW: " Florian Manschwetus
2017-12-04 17:13                         ` Jeff King
2017-11-26 19:38             ` [PATCH v6 2/2] t5560-http-backend-noserver.sh: add CONTENT_LENGTH cases Max Kirillov
2017-11-26 22:18               ` Eric Sunshine
2017-11-26 22:40                 ` Max Kirillov
2017-11-29  3:26                   ` Jeff King
2017-11-29  5:19                     ` Max Kirillov
2017-12-03  0:46                       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27  0:29               ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27  4:02             ` [PATCH v6 0/2] http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH as specified by rfc3875 Junio C Hamano
2017-11-29  5:07               ` Max Kirillov
2017-12-03  0:48                 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-12 16:17                   ` Need to add test artifacts to .gitignore Dan Jacques
2017-12-12 19:00                     ` [RFC PATCH] t/helper: Move sources to t/helper-src; gitignore any files in t/helper Stefan Beller
2017-12-12 19:59                       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-12 20:56                         ` [PATCH] t/helper: ignore everything but sources Stefan Beller
2017-12-12 21:06                           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-13 20:12                             ` Stefan Beller
2017-12-12 21:06                           ` Todd Zullinger
2017-12-19 22:13             ` [PATCH v6 0/2] http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH as specified by rfc3875 Junio C Hamano
2017-12-20  4:30               ` Max Kirillov

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