From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 05:52:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] docs: mention when increasing http.postBuffer is valuable
Message-ID: <20191017055254.GC10253@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20191017005330.9021-4-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:53:30AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

> 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