"bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/...." fails with bzr.dev >= r3309

Assigning to me; I'm working on this.

The branch is <https://code.launchpad.net/~spiv/bzr/smart-http-fix>. I cannot associate it properly at the moment due to a TimeoutError from Launchpad.

> We should:
> * fix the bug in _SmartClient.remote_path_for_transport. I have a
> branch that does this, I'll associate it with this bug.

I've submitted this to the list for review.

> * land the fix to bug 124089

This has now landed.

> * probably explicitly disable the HTTP smart auto-probing in the
> client for a release, to give existing broken smart server deployments
> a chance to deploy a fixed bzr server. We can probably turn this
> feature on in 1.5.

At Robert's suggestion, I've submitted a patch that does something a bit different: the auto-probing by default stays, and a "nosmart+" transport decorator is added. So you could do "bzr branch nosmart+http://host/..." to work around a misconfigured HTTP smart server.

lp needs to deploy the fixed http backend, or disable the POST hook in apache. This isn't a regression as such - its clearly been broken for plain 'bzr+http' too for some time.

Symptoms on b.l.n:
robertc@lifeless-64:~/.bazaar/plugins/gtk$ bzr pull lp:bzr-gtk
You have not informed bzr of your launchpad login. If you are attempting a write operation it may fail. If it does, run "bzr launchpad-login YOUR_ID" to set your login and try again.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ebzr-gtk/bzr-gtk/trunk is redirected to http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr-gtk/bzr-gtk/trunk/
You have not informed bzr of your launchpad login. If you are attempting a write operation it may fail. If it does, run "bzr launchpad-login YOUR_ID" to set your login and try again.
bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr-gtk/bzr-gtk/trunk/".
robertc@lifeless-64:~/.bazaar/plugins/gtk$ bzr pull http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr-gtk/bzr-gtk/trunk/
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ebzr-gtk/bzr-gtk/trunk is redirected to http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr-gtk/bzr-gtk/trunk/
bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr-gtk/bzr-gtk/trunk/".

What is the "fixed http backend"? Is it in bzr.dev already?

I believe the bzr side of this is now fixed (and has been for a few days).

There's a separate "affects" line on this bug for tracking the problem with the bzr+http server on bazaar.launchpad.net.

(For people tracking bzr.dev, a workaround is to use "bzr+ssh://" (if you have a launchpad account with SSH keys) or "nosmart+http://" instead of "http://".)

RT filed to disabled the post handler. Next step is to get a working bzr deployed and tested on staging, then look at reenabling it in production.

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 02:54 +0000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> What is the "fixed http backend"? Is it in bzr.dev already?

I don't know the details; early last week, or the week before was when
it landed in bzr.dev.

-rob
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RT to comment out apache config has been done.