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Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] t5551-http-fetch: Work around broken Accept header in libcurl

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TTarmigan <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 9, 2009, 18:37 UTC
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On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> Unfortunately at least one version of libcurl has a bug causing
> it to include "Accept: */*" in the same POST request where we have
> already asked for "Accept: application/x-git-upload-pack-response".
>
> This is a bug in libcurl, not Git, or our test vector.  The
> application has explicitly asked the server for a single content
> type, but libcurl has mistakenly also told the server the client
> application will accept */*, which is any content type.
>
> Based on the libcurl change log, this "Accept: */*" header bug
> may have been fixed in version 7.18.1 released March 30, 2008:
>
>  http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html#7_18_1
>
> Rather than require users to upgrade libcurl we change the test
> vector to trim this line out of the 2nd request.
>
> Reported-by: Tarmigan <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tarmigan <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Previous: Shawn O. Pearce
Message 5 of 5 in “http-backend: Fix symbol clash on AIX 5.3”
  1. 1/3 http-backend: Fix symbol clash on AIX 5.3Shawn O. Pearce, Nov 9, 2009
  2. 2/3 t5551-http-fetch: Work around some libcurl versionsShawn O. Pearce, Nov 9, 2009
  3. TarmiganNov 9, 2009
  4. 3/3 t5551-http-fetch: Work around broken Accept header in libcurlShawn O. Pearce, Nov 9, 2009
  5. TarmiganNov 9, 2009

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