Re: Please document git-http-backend/Apache timeout interactions

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On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 03:29:56PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This feels 70% like "how to configure your Apache server when you
> run site that is contacted by a client that is slow to talk?", that
> is not necessarily specific to Git.

It's specific to Git in the sense that Git seemingly as a normal matter of
course posts very slowly to /git-upload-pack. Normal HTTP clients don't work
this way; they typically have their entire POST body ready before they decide
to make a request.

> Also while it may make sense to tweak the timeout on the server
> side, recommending to disable it altogether, instead of adjusting to
> the typical requirement for a sane client, feels just wrong.

True, although I have no idea what the right limits would be.

> Also, are all requests from one client slow to start, or are only
> some phases in the protocol exchange slow but not others?  If the
> server side can tell which ones could be normally slow, selectively
> loosening timeouts only for them might be more palatable, but I am
> sensing that you are not suggesting such an approach.

I know only of /git-upload-pack having this pattern, and it is the only one I
am seeing 408 errors for in my logs. It seems to fail very rarely (~0.2% of
all /git-upload-pack requests), but for some users, it's seemingly very
persistent.

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