Re: disabling PROPFIND when using smart http

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 23, 2010, 19:40 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimvKg3mwfZUoRHoj=uW0FxGS=meF-ChLJKEtHcp@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikoGS4X8YbNgLT=Akx5RBj2d4Uybdx5QnJ+CWNo@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.

Well it was someone else, but the pastie he has sent was http://pastebin.com/eaB0G1gx -- which may or may not help, because it doesn't seem to show the response *body*, only the headers.

If that doesn't help I'll try and reproduce the problem myself first.

Thanks,

Sitaram