Re: fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET <<<<<
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- Alan Sargent <alsarg72@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jan 26, 2011, 06:40 UTC
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- <AANLkTin2Fn4mbrrDF4ceEYQZoyGRNymsk0aouBaUp94-@mail.gmail.com>
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- <20110126055955.GA13304@LK-Perkele-VI.localdomain>
Ah! Thank you very much.
:)
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:53:11PM +0800, Alan Sargent wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The "fatal: protocol error: bad line length character" seems fairly >> common, but in the archive and the faq there isn't reference to this >> particular instances - GET. >> >> alan@toaster:~$ git init myrepo >> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/nev/myrepo/.git/ >> alan@toaster:~$ cd myrepo >> alan@toaster:~/myrepo$ git daemon >> fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET << just hitting >> F5 in the browser >> fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET > [...] > > Git daemon serves git:// protocol, not HTTP, you can't access it from > web browser. > > If you are looking for Git repository web interface, look at gitweb > or cgit. > > The error is because HTTP begins the request with "GET " and git > daemon is trying to interpret that as length of packet, failing > and spitting out a fatal error. > > -Ilari >