[COUCHDB-730] Pull replication confuses mochiweb keep-alive

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.1, 0.11
• Fix Version/s: 0.11.1
• Component/s: Replication
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Randall Leeds
• Created: 10/Apr/10 19:31
• Updated: 28/Dec/10 23:28
• Resolved: 12/Apr/10 00:00

Description

MochiWeb closes a request connection if the headers indicate the presence of a body with non-zero length but the body is never read by the application. Couch sends a body with the atom "true" in a POST to _ensure_full_commit before saving replication checkpoints, but a remote Couch will not read this body. As a result, MochiWeb closes the request and all pipelined requests for this host must be retried by couch_rep_httpc / ibrowse.

I don't know if the body = true was a holdover from a quirk with an older MochiWeb, lhttpc (didn't couch used to use this?) or something else, but simply removing it does the trick.

Patch attached.

Issue Links

• relates to: COUCHDB-722 Continuous replication tasks fail