On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> On 25.06.2013 15:37, Ivan Zhakov wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> The fix seems to be pretty simple and could be safely backported (see
>>>>> patch). The only problem that probably we cannot backport addition of
>>>>> new configuration option due our backward compatibility policy. But
>>>>> may be I'm wrong.
>>>> The SVN_CONFIG_OPTION_HTTP_FORCE_HTTP10 symbol cannot be added.
>>>> Anything using and compiled against that could not be compiled against
>>>> 1.8.0.
>>>>
>>>> But: we don't have to add the public symbol. We can certainly read/use
>>>> the config option in a 1.8.1 release.
>>>>
>>>> But as I said else-thread, I think we should only disable chunked
>>>> requests. Not force HTTP/1.0 completely. And call it busted-proxy :-)
>>>>
>>> I agree that force-http10 is not good name and semantic. Actually
>>> these proxies is not busted: it's allowed to HTTP/1.1 proxies to
>>> require content-length if they want. And strictly speaking proxies may
>>> have different behavior for different requests.
>>>
>>> So I'm going to commit my patch with 'http-disable-chunked-requests'
>>> and nominate for backport. This should provide workaround for current
>>> users. And then continue discussion about full/automatic solution.
>>>
>> Added 'htttp-chunked-requests' configuration in r1496470.
>
> I'm really not a fan of this config knob. Anyone who carries their
> laptop around will effectively have to set this as the default, because
> you never know when the next weird proxy will pop up in front of your
> server. And disabling chunked requests by default is a lot worse than
> the extra non-pipelined request for broken proxies, IMO.
>
These proxies actually are not broken. Such behavior allowed by RFC.
Btw we already have knob to disabling compression or control maximum
number of concurrent connections to server.
Anyway I consider this configuration option as workaround, because any
full solution other than disable chunked requests by default will
require significant effort and time.
--
Ivan Zhakov
CTO | VisualSVN | http://www.visualsvn.com
Received on 2013-06-25 17:42:43 CEST