Re: problem cloning via http since v1.6.6-rc0

From: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2010, 14:00 UTC
Message-ID: <20100121140054.GH18213@onerussian.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100121155136.17b59e8f.rctay89@gmail.com>

Hi Tay Ray,

That patch works fine for me ;) I only hope it would get accepted into bugfix and next dev release (I guess it might annoy some of apache admins a bit due to increase of their errors.log now even for well maintained repositories, but well -- that is life ;-) )

Thanks! Yarik

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Tay Ray Chuan wrote:

> > afaik, putting a "?var1=val1&var2=...." still makes it a normal GET
> > request, even if the url requested is just a plain file and not some
> > cgi handler that uses those variables/values.

> Yaroslav, sorry for making you run in circles - it really is git's
> fault (sorta).

> In recent versions of git, we were sending out the GET request for
> info/refs with a query string (?serivce=<service name>). I'm not sure
> why, but your server is not playing nice when the query string is
> appended.

> Could you try this patch and see if it solves the issue? I manage to
> clone your repo successfully with it.

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