Re: counting the number of connections?
Hi,
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, David Kågedal wrote:
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> Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > some time ago I noticed curl doesn't remember your credentials (apart
> > from those it can get from ~/.netrc), and very recently there was an
> > thread on repeated prompting for credentials while pushing to https.
> >
> > I've written a simple patch series, which allows git to play nice
> > without curl_multi. That is, git uses a single persistent connection
> > throughout.
> >
> > However, I'm at a loss at how to test for this. How does one count the
> > number of connections made during the lifespan of a program's
> > execution? So far, I've been relying on my firewall log (Comodo on
> > windows). Perhaps there a more operating system/software-agnostic
> > method to do this?
>
> You could set up a single-use tcp forwarder which will make any second
> connection fail. Using socat, for instance:
>
> $ socat tcp-listen:2222,bind=localhost tcp:my.server:22 &
> $ nc localhost 2222
> SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-3ubuntu1
> ^C
> $ nc localhost 2222
> localhost [127.0.0.1] 2222 (?) : Connection refused
AFAICT Ray wants to provide tests for Git's test suite, and introducing socat as a dependency for our tests does not really fly all that well.
But IIRC somebody convinced Ray that it is better to require a new-enough cURL version so that the patch becomes moot itself.
Ciao, Dscho
Tay Ray Chuan
