From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Simon Streit <simon@netpanic.org>,
Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>,
53668@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53668: Updating substitutes on LAN hosts dies unexpectedly
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 09:47:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilqaooam.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k1vma9a.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Thu, 12 May 2022 10:21:37 +0200")
Hello,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:
>>
>>> Ludovic Courtès schreef op wo 11-05-2022 om 16:58 [+0200]:
>>>> However, this may well be this ‘guix publish’ bug that was recently
>>>> fixed, whereby ‘guix publish’ without ‘--cache’ would send bogus HTTP
>>>> replies:
>>>>
>>>> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/54723
>>>>
>>>> Could you confirm?
>>>>
>>>> Ludo’.
>>>
>>> Even then, the error message says ‘wrong type error ...’, shouldn't it
>>> say something like ‘bogus HTTP’ or ‘bogus narinfo’ or such instead?
>>
>> I agree that a more accurate error message would have been useful. If
>> you have the bandwidth for a patch, I'd be more than happy reviewing it
>> :-).
>
> HTTP response parsing happens in (web response) though, not in Guix, so
> this is where things should be patch.
>
> Currently that code pretty much expects it’s talking to a well-behaved
> HTTP server. Changing it to gracefully deal with any kind of garbage
> might turn out to be quite an effort.
Hmm. I see. Maxime, perhaps an issue can be logged against Guile to at
least remember it exists, to tackle by anyone with the
interest/bandwidth. I think it'd be valuable in the long run.
Thank you!
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-12 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-31 18:37 bug#53668: Updating substitutes on LAN hosts dies unexpectedly Simon Streit
2022-01-31 20:17 ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2022-01-31 21:38 ` Simon Streit
2022-01-31 21:55 ` Simon Streit
2022-02-01 2:06 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-05-11 14:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-11 15:02 ` Maxime Devos
2022-05-12 1:17 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-05-12 8:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-12 13:47 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2022-05-11 15:06 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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