On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de> wrote:
> Ivan Zhakov wrote on Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 02:21:05 +0400:
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de> wrote:
>> > Johan Corveleyn wrote on Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 23:22:12 +0200:
>> >> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> wrote:
>> >> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Philip Martin
>> >> >> <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>> >> >>> Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> writes:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>> 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.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Right.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Though I suspect most of the problems are reverse proxies in front of
>> >> >> a particular server, so you can put the config option into a [server]
>> >> >> config block instead of global. That will help to limit the problem,
>> >> >> but lack of dynamic detection is still a problem.
>> >> >>
>> >> > What is the benefit of dynamic detection enabled by some knob in config file?
>> >>
>> >> The dynamic detection has a cost (1 extra request per connection),
>> >> that you might want to avoid by default (most environments won't need
>> >> the dynamic detection (especially corporate environments)). Only
>> >> enable the dynamic detection if you know the proxy has a problem with
>> >> chunkness, or if you're not sure it will stay that way, or ...
>> >>
>> >> (not interfering with the rest of the discussion right now :-)
>> >
>> > AIUI the cost is only incurred by set-ups that have the so-called
>> > "busted" proxies. And a config option has a cost too: it would need to
>> > be supported until 2.0 (aka, indefinitely).
>> Please note that this extra request is per session and currently we
>> create many sessions even during one operation. And I'm also not happy
>> to make performance worse for users who doesn't use reverse proxies
>> and etc.
>
> Please define "etc".
>
> Also, I just said that the cost is only incurred only by people who use
> a "so-called 'busted' proxy". If you think that is not true, please say
> that explicitly, I don't want to have to fish from your words whether
> you think that is the case or not.
What you say is not correct, the reason has been explained earlier in
this thread:
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2013-06/0530.shtml
> (We have enough bad implications on IRC right now; don't need more on list)
Received on 2013-06-26 00:37:12 CEST