[PATCH v5 5/5] docs: mention when increasing http.postBuffer is valuable
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brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
- Date
- Jan 22, 2020, 03:45 UTC
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- <20200122034543.18927-6-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
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- <20200122034543.18927-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
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.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> --- Documentation/config/http.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/config/http.txt b/Documentation/config/http.txt index 5a32f5b0a5..3d1db91f05 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/http.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/http.txt @@ -199,6 +199,14 @@ http.postBuffer:: Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used to avoid creating a massive pack file locally. Default is 1 MiB, which is sufficient for most requests. ++ +Note that raising this limit is only effective for disabling chunked +transfer encoding and therefore should be used only where the remote +server or a proxy only supports HTTP/1.0 or is noncompliant with the +HTTP standard. Raising this is not, in general, an effective solution +for most push problems, but can increase memory consumption +significantly since the entire buffer is allocated even for small +pushes. http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime:: If the HTTP transfer speed is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit'