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From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update documentation for http.continue option
Date: Tue,  8 Oct 2013 20:48:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1381265287-39331-3-git-send-email-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1381265287-39331-1-git-send-email-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>

Explain the reason for and behavior of the new http.continue option, and that it
is enabled by default.  Furthermore, explain that it is required for large
GSS-Negotiate requests but incompatible with some proxies.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
---
 Documentation/config.txt | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index fca7749..5fff2b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1516,6 +1516,15 @@ http.postBuffer::
 	massive pack file locally.  Default is 1 MiB, which is
 	sufficient for most requests.
 
+http.continue::
+	Ensure that authentication succeeds before sending the pack data when
+	POSTing data using the smart HTTP transport.  This is done by
+	requesting a 100 Continue response.  For requests larger than
+	'http.postBuffer', this is required when using GSS-Negotiate
+	(Kerberos) authentication over HTTP.  However, some proxies do not
+	handle the protocol exchange gracefully; for them, this option must be
+	disabled.  Defaults to enabled.
+
 http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime::
 	If the HTTP transfer speed is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit'
 	for longer than 'http.lowSpeedTime' seconds, the transfer is aborted.
-- 
1.8.4.rc3

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-08 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-08 20:48 [PATCH 0/2] HTTP GSS-Negotiate improvements brian m. carlson
2013-10-08 20:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] http: add option to enable 100 Continue responses brian m. carlson
2013-10-09 19:30   ` Jeff King
2013-10-09 21:19     ` Shawn Pearce
2013-10-09 21:37       ` Jeff King
2013-10-10  1:35         ` brian m. carlson
2013-10-10  1:43           ` Jeff King
2013-10-10  8:14           ` Shawn Pearce
2013-10-11 22:31             ` brian m. carlson
2013-10-12  2:02               ` Shawn Pearce
2013-10-08 20:48 ` brian m. carlson [this message]

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