Re: [PATCH] http-backend: Treat empty CONTENT_LENGTH as zero

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 02:22:21PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Thanks.  I am wondering if we should go all the way and do
> 
> 	ssize_t val;
> 	const char *str = getenv("CONTENT_LENGTH");
> 
> 	if (!str || !*str)
> 		return 0;
> 	if (!git_parse_ssize_t(str, &val))
> 		die(...);
> 	return val;
> 
> That would match the RFC, but it seems to make t5510-fetch.sh hang,
> right after
> 
>   ok 165 - --negotiation-tip understands abbreviated SHA-1
> 
> When I run with -v -i -x, it stalls at
> 
>   ++ git -C '/usr/local/google/home/jrn/src/git/t/trash directory.t5510-fetch/httpd/www/server' tag -d alpha_1 alpha_2 beta_1 beta_2
>   Deleted tag 'alpha_1' (was a84e4a9)
>   Deleted tag 'alpha_2' (was 7dd5cf4)
>   Deleted tag 'beta_1' (was bcb5c65)
>   Deleted tag 'beta_2' (was d3b6dcd)
>   +++ pwd
>   ++ GIT_TRACE_PACKET='/usr/local/google/home/jrn/src/git/t/trash directory.t5510-fetch/trace'
>   ++ git -C client fetch --negotiation-tip=alpha_1 --negotiation-tip=beta_1 origin alpha_s beta_s
> 
> Do you know why?

Yes. :)

It's due to this comment in the patch you are replying to:

+       if (!str) {
+               /*
+                * RFC3875 says this must mean "no body", but in practice we
+                * receive chunked encodings with no CONTENT_LENGTH. Tell the
+                * caller to read until EOF.
+                */
+               val = -1;

-Peff