From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 06:07:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH as specified by rfc3875
Message-ID: <xmqq1skcjqer.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171203024958.GA31493@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... Eventually our fill() will block trying to get data that is
> not there. On an Apache server, the webserver would know there is
> nothing left to send us and close() the pipe, and we'd get EOF.
> But on IIS, I think the pipe remains open and we'd just block
> indefinitely trying to read().

Ah, yeah, under that scenario, trusting content-length and trying to
read, waiting for input that would never come, will be a problem,
and it would probably want to get documented.