From 28d0c1017a10a93ce165a2d4e9fb6a691a933bd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:49:56 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] remote-curl: don't retry auth failures with dumb protocol When fetching an http URL, we first try fetching info/refs with an extra "service" parameter. This will work for a smart-http server, or a dumb server which ignores extra parameters when fetching files. If that fails, we retry without the extra parameter to remain compatible with dumb servers which didn't like our first request. If the server returned a "401 Unauthorized", indicating that the credentials we provided were not good, there is not much point in retrying. With the current code, we just waste an extra round trip to the HTTP server before failing. But as the http code becomes smarter about throwing away rejected credentials and re-prompting the user for new ones (which it will later in this series), this will become more confusing. At some point we will stop asking for credentials to retry smart http, and will be asking for credentials to retry dumb http. So now we're not only wasting an extra HTTP round trip for something that is unlikely to work, but we're making the user re-type their password for it. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- remote-curl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/remote-curl.c b/remote-curl.c index faaeda44a..6c24ab157 100644 --- a/remote-curl.c +++ b/remote-curl.c @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static struct discovery* discover_refs(const char *service) http_ret = http_get_strbuf(refs_url, &buffer, HTTP_NO_CACHE); /* try again with "plain" url (no ? or & appended) */ - if (http_ret != HTTP_OK) { + if (http_ret != HTTP_OK && http_ret != HTTP_NOAUTH) { free(refs_url); strbuf_reset(&buffer); -- 2.30.2