Re: disabling PROPFIND when using smart http

From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 23, 2010, 17:31 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikoGS4X8YbNgLT=Akx5RBj2d4Uybdx5QnJ+CWNo@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101123161018.GB10420@LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi>

Hey,

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:

> Apparently pusher is falling back to dumb WebDAV push for some
> reason. And then failing because server does not support it
> or isn't configured apporiately for it.

Yes, the client will fall back to 'dumb' HTTP stuff if the server does not respond properly to the initial /info/refs GET call. I believe it's something like if the client asks for

/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack

and the server does not respond with the first line being:

# service=git-upload-pack

or the Content-Type header being:

application/x-git-upload-pack-advertisement

I believe either of those being absent will cause the client to think that it's not a smart server, so it falls back to the DAV based push. If you let us know what the curl output before that point was, or what your apache config looks like, we might be able to help figure out what's wrong with the server.

I got these DAV fallbacks all the time when my proxy wasn't letting the /info/refs calls through to Apache properly.

Scott