On 13.09.2019 11:04, Julian Foad wrote:
> Branko Čibej wrote:
>> On 11.09.2019 18:22, Julian Foad wrote:
>>> $ svn ls https://archive.apache.org/dist
>>> Redirecting to URL 'https://archive.apache.org/dist':
>>> Redirecting to URL 'https://archive.apache.org/dist':
>>> svn: E195019: Redirect cycle detected for URL
>>> 'https://archive.apache.org/dist'
>>> [...] >>
>>> Does that make sense?
>>
>> It does not.
>>
>> [...] No DAV headers there, so it's not a Subversion repository and
>> not our
>> problem. Compare to:
>>
>> $ curl --request OPTIONS --include https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
>
> Gah... I was comparing https://archive.apache.org/dist/ with
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/ and somehow it did not occur to me
> that the former might not be a repository.
>
> Thanks for setting me straight!
>
> It is a confusing error message, though. The redirect "cycle" is only
> Subversion that made it a cycle, and is not the real problem. We could
> do better.
We could. Not canonicalizing the value of the Location header is an
option; if it's not a valid URL, that's the server admin's problem, not
ours (and as noted a number of times in other conversations, Subversion
is not a browser so we don't have to worry about producing user-friendly
URLs).
Note that JavaHL has its own redirect-cycle detection (this is
client-side stuff, not library-level stuff).
-- Brane
Received on 2019-09-13 11:12:28 CEST