[libvirt] [PATCH] esx: Correctly disable HTTP Expect header usage of libcurl
Eric Blake
eblake at redhat.com
Mon Feb 20 21:57:14 UTC 2012
On 02/20/2012 02:38 PM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Adding "Expect:" to the header list stops libcurl from sending a
> Expect header at all.
>
> Before, a dummy Expect header was added that might confuse HTTP
> proxies and result in HTTP error code 417 being reported.
> ---
> src/esx/esx_vi.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/esx/esx_vi.c b/src/esx/esx_vi.c
> index 14ad50a..6004aac 100644
> --- a/src/esx/esx_vi.c
> +++ b/src/esx/esx_vi.c
> @@ -293,14 +293,14 @@ esxVI_CURL_Connect(esxVI_CURL *curl, esxUtil_ParsedUri *parsedUri)
> "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8");
>
> /*
> - * Add a dummy expect header to stop CURL from waiting for a response code
> + * Add an empty expect header to stop CURL from waiting for a response code
> * 100 (Continue) from the server before continuing the POST operation.
> * Waiting for this response would slowdown each communication with the
> * server by approx. 2 sec, because the server doesn't send the expected
> * 100 (Continue) response and the wait times out resulting in wasting
> * approx. 2 sec per POST operation.
> */
> - curl->headers = curl_slist_append(curl->headers, "Expect: nothing");
> + curl->headers = curl_slist_append(curl->headers, "Expect:");
ACK.
--
Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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