From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:02:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Errors from http-fetch
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510201558231.25300@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051019223708.GC6160@reactrix.com>

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Nick Hengeveld wrote:

> > Another thing I noticed was that it was in the middle of downloading the 
> > pack when it suddenly exitted due to not being able to find the object; it 
> > would probably be worth having a call to finish up the active transfers 
> > after giving up on completing the whole thing, since we probably do 
> > actually want to finish downloading a big pack if we've started.
> 
> I'm not sure how that could happen - once a pack download request
> starts, it has to finish before any fetch() calls can fail.  However,
> there could certainly be other object requests in process when one
> fails, and it would be polite to let them finish.

Hmm; it definitely cut off a pack download in progress. When I ran it 
again, it resumed that download, which contained the missing object. Last 
night, I didn't see any problems, though. I'd certainly believe that 
server disagreement could be a factor, though.

	-Daniel
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