Re: git over https and http 1.1

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: May 19, 2011, 20:31 UTC
Message-ID: <1305837109.25259.11.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <OF134A8B76.F0B9B9C0-ON85257894.00462851-85257894.00462862@greenhouse.lotus.com>

On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 08:46 -0400, Nir.Friedman@greenhouse.lotus.com wrote:

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> I am using git with https as the transport protocol. 
> Response times were around 30 seconds before apache started processing the backend command. 
> I added the flags -  BrowserMatch "git"      downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
>  to the apache conf file, and response times were fast. 
> This seems to mean that the libcurl library is not dealing correctly with HTTP 1/1 over SSL. Is this the best fix? 
> If so, maybe appropriate documentation should be added to the git setup docs.--

Sounds a little drastic to me... Perhaps to find out what's going on you might set up a test repo behind an STunnel instance and have a look at the TCP/HTTP stream between them?

Perhaps Git+libcurl isn't using keep-alive? I'd have to check the code.

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-Drew Northup
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