431 Too Many Headers when getting largefiles

[Manuel Jacob]

On 23/07/2024 17.54, Ansis Māliņš wrote:
> The solution is to put this into the server side hgrc:
> [experimental]
> httppostargs = true

Thanks for the answer! I’ve added the information to the bug report 
linked in my last mail.

> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 5:48 PM Manuel Jacob <me at manueljacob.de 
> <mailto:me at manueljacob.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Ansis,
> 
>     Were you able to find the root cause of the problem? I’m asking because
>     someone has reported a similar problem to the bug tracker:
>     https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6896
>     <https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6896>
> 
>     On 03/10/2021 15.45, Ansis Māliņš wrote:
>      > Hello. I have a repository with lots of largefiles. Since recently,
>      > people have trouble cloning it over HTTP. It fails at the step of
>      > "getting changed largefiles". Cloning with --noupdate succeeds,
>     but then
>      > hg update default hangs Mercurial, and pressing Ctrl+C has it
>     print "431
>      > Too Many Headers" as it quits. The repository is a hg serve
>     behind an
>      > Nginx. Looking at the logs, I've determined that the error is coming
>      > from hg serve and not Nginx. I have also determined that the
>     issue only
>      > occurs when Nginx is in the loop. Talking directly to hg serve
>     succeeds.
>      >
>      > The relevant Nginx config is as follows:
>      >
>      > large_client_header_buffers 4 1m;
>      > location /hg/ {
>      >      proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/ <http://127.0.0.1:8000/>
>     <http://127.0.0.1:8000/ <http://127.0.0.1:8000/>>;
>      >      client_max_body_size 10g;
>      >      proxy_buffering off;
>      >      proxy_request_buffering off;
>      > }
>      >
>      > Where should I go from here?
>      >
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