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Re: JavaHL: redirect cycle detected for non-cyclic redirects

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 02:36:15 +0200

On 29.05.2017 14:57, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 29.05.2017 10:31, Marc Strapetz wrote:
>> On 24.05.2017 19:59, Branko Čibej wrote:
>>> On 24.05.2017 19:37, Branko Čibej wrote:
>>>> On 24.05.2017 12:19, Marc Strapetz wrote:
>>>>> I have following Apache virtual host configuration which contains a
>>>>> redirect:
>>>>>
>>>>> RedirectMatch 301 ^/svntest/(.*)$ /svntests/$1
>>>>>
>>>>> <Location /svntests>
>>>>> DAV svn
>>>>> SVNParentPath /misc/svntests
>>>>> ...
>>>>> </Location>
>>>>>
>>>>> When trying to access a redirected repository from command line, this
>>>>> works fine:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ svn ls https://host/svntest/test1
>>>>> Redirecting to URL 'https://host/svntests/test1':
>>>>> project1/
>>>>>
>>>>> When trying to access using JavaHL, a "Redirect cycle detected for
>>>>> URL" SubversionException is thrown. Code snippet:
>>>>>
>>>>> RemoteFactory remoteFactory = new RemoteFactory();
>>>>> remoteFactory.openRemoteSession("https://host/svntest/test1", 100);
>>>>>
>>>>> As the definition is not cyclic and retryAttempts=100 should be
>>>>> sufficient, it looks like there is a JavaHL problem related to
>>>>> redirects?
>>>> Could be a bug in the redirect detection logic in JavaHL. I'll take
>>>> a look.
>>> Can you try this patch, please?
>>>
>>> Index: subversion/bindings/javahl/native/RemoteSession.cpp
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- subversion/bindings/javahl/native/RemoteSession.cpp (revision
>>> 1796083)
>>> +++ subversion/bindings/javahl/native/RemoteSession.cpp (working
>>> copy)
>>> @@ -214,8 +214,9 @@ RemoteSession::RemoteSession(int retryAttempts,
>>> cycle_detected = true;
>>> break;
>>> }
>>> - /* ### Shouldn't url be updated for the next attempt?
>>> - ### There is no real cycle if we just do the same thing
>>> twice? */
>>> +
>>> + url = corrected_url;
>>> + corrected_url = NULL;
>>> }
>>>
>>> if (cycle_detected)
>> Thanks, Brane! We have applied the patch to 1.9.x branch and I can
>> confirm that it's working.
> Great, thanks for checking.
>
>> Will it be possible to backport the patch to 1.9.x branch in the
>> Subversion repository, too?
> Yes, since there's no API change, just an implementation bug fix.

Fixed on trunk and proposed for 1.9.x.

-- Brane
Received on 2017-05-30 02:36:23 CEST

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