Jira (PUP-3238) puppet reports "end of file reached" if server closes HTTP connection

[Kylo Ginsberg (JIRA)]

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Kylo Ginsberg commented on an issue   Re: puppet reports "end of file reached" if server closes HTTP connection Josh Cooper according to the documentation for the post (et al) methods here: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.2/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTP.html This method never raises exception. So it does appear to mask errors on writes. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-3238 puppet reports "end of file reached" if server closes HTTP connection I have two dirname.rb functions in my code, one from stdlib and one in a different module I installed at an earlier stage. This has never been a problem, puppet has somehow chosen one of them and not complained about it. After upgrading to 3.7.0 on the clients, the puppetruns crashes with "Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: end of file... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.