From: Tarmigan <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:37:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] t5551-http-fetch: Work around broken Accept header in libcurl
Message-ID: <905315640911091037i5e99c719rf754db7c95f0b069@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1257790237-30850-3-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org>

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> 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>