Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] docs: mention when increasing http.postBuffer is valuable
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Oct 17, 2019, 05:52 UTC
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- <20191017055254.GC10253@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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- <20191017005330.9021-4-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:53:30AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
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> Users in a wide variety of situations find themselves with HTTP push > problems. Oftentimes these issues are due to antivirus software, > filtering proxies, or other man-in-the-middle situations; other times, > they are due to simple unreliability of the network. > > However, a common solution to HTTP push problems found online is to > increase http.postBuffer. This works for none of the aforementioned > situations and is only useful in a small, highly restricted number of > cases: essentially, when the connection does not properly support > HTTP/1.1. > > Document when raising this value is appropriate and what it actually > does, and discourage people from using it as a general solution for push > problems, since it is not effective there.
Yeah, I've run into some voodoo advice about this config option before. I think your advice neatly explains the situation.
-Peff