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

[Josh Cooper (JIRA)]

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Josh Cooper commented on PUP-3238   Re: puppet reports "end of file reached" if server closes HTTP connection Thanks Nick Moriarty for debugging the issue you were seeing. As far as retrying http connections, there has been some active debate about that on PUP-2526. However, note that POST requests are not idempotent and should not be retried. And since the error you were seeing was due to a POST request: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/network/http/connection.rb:87:in `post' http retry would not have helped. I looked into testing HTTP connection prior to reusing them. The difficulty I ran into there was finding a valid request that didn't require data to be transferred, and also one that worked without requiring a client cert. It may be possible to issue a HEAD request for the certificate authority certificate, e.g. HEAD /production/certificate/ca HTTP/1.1, though that could result in a substantial number of requests, especially during pluginsync. I think this particular issue most often comes up when facts take a long time to resolve, e.g. about as long as the client http keepalive timeout. Another improvement might be to do something like: pool do pluginsync end   evaluate facts   pool do retrieve catalog apply catalog send report end Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.10#6340-sha1:7ea293a) -- 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.