Certainly a crash is rarely the correct behaviour. Is there a chance that the dynamic endpoint is switched-out part way through a transfer, and *that* is the cause for the crash ?
-bch On 12/11/14, Ashwin Hirschi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > recently, my team started using Fossil. It took me a while to move our > existing code revisions to Fossil repositories. But it was worth it: > everyone's very pleased with what Fossil offers. So, I'm really glad we > made the jump. > > Unfortunately, it looks we've also run into strange crashes related to > (HTTP) redirection. Since many team members work from home, their IP > addresses jump around a lot. To help people find each other, we've set up > a simple redirection service. > > In this system, each team member has an associated, fixed URL. And > whenever a HTTP GET or POST request on such a URL occurs, the service > redirects the client to the actual (registered) IP address of the > corresponding member. > > Strangely enough, this works well *most* of the time. Fossil picks up the > 302 redirect, reports it and goes about its business. Regular "fossil > sync" commands seem to work fine, as do other commands that deal with > remote repositories. > > But oddly, 9 out of 10 "fossil commit" commands will fail. The application > > crashes always seem to occur when Fossil tries to push the changes to the > remote repository. Sometimes the commited changes were still transmitted, > sometimes not... > > As I'm currently unable to build and/or debug Fossil, I've taken up > reading and analysing the Fossil source code to try and find the cause. > But I'm hoping others may have run into similar issues or are perhaps able > > to reproduce our problems? > > By the way, we're all using the official version 1.29 build and are > running in auto-sync mode. > > Ashwin. > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
