From: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:32:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow curl to rewind the RPC read buffer at any time
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0912021130300.5582@cone.home.martin.st>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0912021011430.19179@tvnag.unkk.fr>

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Tay Ray Chuan wrote:
> 
> > According to Martin, Expect: 100-continue is not working due to libcurl.
> 
> Right, that is/was a bug in how libcurl behaves when the application itself
> has set the "Expect: 100-continue" header. Martin has provided a fix for that
> for the next libcurl version though, but that won't make a lot of existing
> users happy.
> 
> Thinking about this particular problem, what is the motivation for git to
> forcily add that header in the first place? I mean, libcurl does add the
> header by itself when it thinks it is necessary and then it handles it
> correctly.

As far as I saw, the reason for it being manually added is that curl 
actually didn't add it automatically in that case. That was the reason for 
the second patch/rfc thread that I sent to curl-library (where postsize == 
0, as in unknown, didn't trigger the addition of any Expect header).

// Martin