Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] curl: Add override_accept_ranges flag to force sending range requests.

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 08:37:22AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On 08/26/2014 08:38 PM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> >> On Tue, 08/26 21:48, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>> Some servers (notably VMware ESX) accept range requests, but don't
> >>> send back the Accept-Ranges: bytes header in their initial response.
> >>>
> >>> For these servers you can set override_accept_ranges to 'on' which
> >>> forces this block driver to send range requests anyway.
> >
> > Is this a case where we should be naming with dashes instead of
> > underscores, as in override-accept-ranges?
> 
> Yes.

Thanks for reviewing.  I'm actually going to drop this for a couple of
reasons:

 - VMware vSphere does send the header, only ESX doesn't.

 - When you access ESX (using this patch) eventually the ESX web
   server crashes.  In a sense ESX was correct that it doesn't support
   ranges -- because it's buggy.

Rich.

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