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RE: [PATCH] HTTP reason phrases not always returned in ra_dav error messages

From: Bill Tutt <rassilon_at_lyra.org>
Date: 2002-12-20 21:29:17 CET

> From: sussman@collab.net [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
>
>
> "Bill Tutt" <rassilon@lyra.org> writes:
>
> > While trying to diagnose whether an error a proxy error or not I
> > noticed not all ra_dav error messages were including the Neon error
> > message correctly.
> [...]
> > * libsvn_ra_dav/util.c:
> > (svn_ra_dav__parsed_request, svn_ra_dav__request_dispatch) Adjust
> > the code knowing that Neon can return NE_OK while still having
> > a failure status code.
>
> Sure, this makes sense. All you're doing is changing
>
> if (A) error; if (B) error;
>
> into
>
> if (A || B) error;
>
> It doesn't change the logic, just improves the error-throwing
> detail. Looks good.
>

Yep.

> >
> > * libsvn_ra_dav/props.c:
> > (svn_ra_dav__get_props) Use error helper function to ensure
> > that the HTTP reason string gets included in the
> error context.
>
> This may not be as safe. You're changing the logic here:
>
> > - if (rv != NE_OK)
> > + if (rv != NE_OK
> > + || status_code != 200)
> > {
> > const char *msg = apr_psprintf(pool, "PROPFIND of %s", url);
> > return svn_ra_dav__convert_error(sess, msg, rv);
> > }
> > -
> > - if (404 == status_code)
> > - return svn_error_createf(SVN_ERR_RA_DAV_PROPS_NOT_FOUND, NULL,
> > - "Failed to fetch props for
> '%s'", url);
>
>
> Although I guess simply combining the if statements here
> won't help you. You need to be able to catch 5XX codes from
> your proxy failures.
>
> Maybe we should change this section of __get_props to
>
> if (nv != NE_OK || status_code < 200 || status_code > 299)
>
> ?
>

That would indeed be good. Could you run a make check against that? I
don't have built SWIG bindings atm. :(

Or indeed, I could just commit the patch and have other folks test it.
This is version control. ;)

I can happily report that the patch did improve the error reporting from
my proxy failures.

Thanks,
Bill

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