Hi All, thx Max for jumping in, I wasn't able to complete this due to serious lack of time. Later I forgot it. Great to see that this finally made it.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards Florian Manschwetus E-Mail: manschwe...@cs-software-gmbh.de Tel.: +49-(0)611-8908534 CS Software Concepts and Solutions GmbH Geschäftsführer / Managing director: Dr. Werner Alexi Amtsgericht Wiesbaden HRB 10004 (Commercial registry) Schiersteiner Straße 31 D-65187 Wiesbaden Germany Tel.: 0611/8908555 > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gits...@pobox.com] > Gesendet: Freitag, 24. November 2017 06:55 > An: Max Kirillov > Cc: Jeff King; Florian Manschwetus; Chris Packham; Konstantin Khomoutov; > git@vger.kernel.org > Betreff: Re: [PATCH] http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH as specified > by rfc3875 > > Max Kirillov <m...@max630.net> writes: > > > http-backend reads whole input until EOF. However, the RFC 3875 > > specifies that a script must read only as many bytes as specified by > > CONTENT_LENGTH environment variable. This causes hang under > IIS/Windows, for example. > > > > Make http-backend read only CONTENT_LENGTH bytes, if it's defined, > > rather than the whole input until EOF. If the varibale is not defined, > > keep older behavior of reading until EOF because it is used to support > chunked transfer-encoding. > > > > Signed-off-by: Florian Manschwetus <manschwetus@cs-software- > gmbh.de> > > Authored-by: Florian Manschwetus <manschwetus@cs-software- > gmbh.de> > > Fixed-by: Max Kirillov <m...@max630.net> > > Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <m...@max630.net> > > --- > > ... > > I hope I marked it correctly in the trailers. > > It is probably more conventional to do it like so: > > From: Florian Manschwetus <manschwe...@cs-software-gmbh.de> > Date: <original date of Florian's patch series> > > http-backend reads whole input until EOF. However, the RFC 3875... > ... chunked transfer-encoding. > > Signed-off-by: Florian Manschwetus <manschwetus@cs-software- > gmbh.de> > [mk: fixed trivial build failures and stuff] > Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <m...@max630.net> > --- > > > > > +/* > > + * replacement for original read_request, now renamed to > > +read_request_eof, > > + * honoring given content_length (req_len), > > + * provided by new wrapper function read_request */ > > I agree with Eric's suggestion. In-code comment is read by those who have > the current code, without knowing/caring what it used to be. "It used to do > this, but replace it with this new thing because..." is a valuable thing to > record > in the log message, but not here.
