Bazaar

smart server probing in 1.4 breaks check outs of short bus http repositories [regression]

Bug #230223 reported by James Troup on 2008-05-14

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Bazaar	Fix Released	High	Vincent Ladeuil	Bazaar 1.6

Bug Description

bzr 1.4 can't branch

http://bzr.debian.org/da-tools/da-tools/userdir-ldap-common

It bombs out with:

| bzr: ERROR: Transport error: Server refuses to fullfil the request

This appears to be the smart server probing as ~/.bzr.log shows it
trying to do a POST which is 403-ed. This is a regression from 1.3
which can branch the above URL just fine.

Related branches

lp:~vila/bzr/230223-hpss-probing (Merged)

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James Troup (elmo) wrote on 2008-05-14:

relevant portion of .bzr.log with -Dhttp and -Dtransport Edit (4.8 KiB, text/plain)

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James Westby (james-w) wrote on 2008-05-14:

Hi,

Thanks for the bug report. I marked it confirmed as I believe someone
on the mailing list is having the same problem. Also I marked it high,
but a release manager may want to make it critical.

Thanks,

James

Changed in bzr:
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Confirmed

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Andrew Bennetts (spiv) wrote on 2008-05-14:

By the way, you should be able to workaround this by prefixing "nosmart+" to the http URL, i.e. "nosmart+http://bzr.debian.org/da-tools/da-tools/userdir-ldap-common".

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Andrew Bennetts (spiv) wrote on 2008-05-14:

I can reproduce this with bzr.dev if I force it to use urllib instead of pycurl (either by removing pycurl, or by using "http+urllib://..." as the URL).

So this appears to be a bug in our error handling for urllib vs. what we do for pycurl.

Vincent Ladeuil (vila) on 2008-05-19