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From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Please document git-http-backend/Apache timeout interactions
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:17:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160221221744.GA38068@sesse.net> (raw)

Hi,

I am running git-http-backend behind Apache as suggested in
git-http-backend(1). However, what it fails to mention is that
git-fetch-pack seemingly can be very slow in sending its request.
Consequently, mod_reqtimeout (on by default, as I understand it)
kicks in as an anti-DoS measure, and the user sees a 408 (timeout)
error.

Seemingly the simplest fix is to turn off mod_reqtimeout in the vhost
serving git (potentially with some <IfModule> around it):

   RequestReadTimeout header=0 body=0

Would you consider adding this to the documentation?

Thanks!

/* Steinar */
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             reply	other threads:[~2016-02-21 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-21 22:17 Steinar H. Gunderson [this message]
2016-02-21 23:29 ` Please document git-http-backend/Apache timeout interactions Junio C Hamano
2016-02-21 23:34   ` Steinar H. Gunderson

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