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net/http: Request.ProtoMajor/Minor behavior vs docs discrepancy #18407

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bradfitz opened this issue Dec 21, 2016 · 2 comments
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net/http: Request.ProtoMajor/Minor behavior vs docs discrepancy #18407

bradfitz opened this issue Dec 21, 2016 · 2 comments
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The net/http.Request docs say:

        // The protocol version for incoming server requests.
        //
        // For client requests these fields are ignored. The HTTP
        // client code always uses either HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2.
        // See the docs on Transport for details.
        Proto      string // "HTTP/1.0"
        ProtoMajor int    // 1
        ProtoMinor int    // 0

But that turns out not to be true. transfer.go's func newTransferWriter checks for instance:

        case *Request:
...
                atLeastHTTP11 = rr.ProtoAtLeast(1, 1)
...
                if t.ContentLength < 0 && len(t.TransferEncoding) == 0 && atLeastHTTP11 { 
                        t.TransferEncoding = []string{"chunked"} 
                }

This bug is to audit investigate either fixing the implementation (if possible), or fixing the docs, and auditing any other locations. Hopefully it's fixable and doesn't require documentation.

@bradfitz bradfitz added the NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. label Dec 21, 2016
@bradfitz bradfitz added this to the Go1.9 milestone Dec 21, 2016
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CL https://golang.org/cl/34668 mentions this issue.

@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor changed the title net/http: Request.ProtoMajor/Minor behavior vs docs discrepenancy net/http: Request.ProtoMajor/Minor behavior vs docs discrepancy Dec 22, 2016
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In Go 1.8, we'd removed the Transport's Request.Body
one-byte-Read-sniffing to disambiguate between non-nil Request.Body
with a ContentLength of 0 or -1. Previously, we tried to see whether a
ContentLength of 0 meant actually zero, or just an unset by reading a
single byte of the Request.Body and then stitching any read byte back
together with the original Request.Body.

That historically has caused many problems due to either data races,
blocking forever (#17480), or losing bytes (#17071). Thus, we removed
it in both HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 in Go 1.8. Unfortunately, during the Go
1.8 beta, we've found that a few people have gotten bitten by the
behavior change on requests with methods typically not containing
request bodies (e.g. GET, HEAD, DELETE). The most popular example is
the aws-go SDK, which always set http.Request.Body to a non-nil value,
even on such request methods. That was causing Go 1.8 to send such
requests with Transfer-Encoding chunked bodies, with zero bytes,
confusing popular servers (including but limited to AWS).

This CL partially reverts the no-byte-sniffing behavior and restores
it only for GET/HEAD/DELETE/etc requests, and only when there's no
Transfer-Encoding set, and the Content-Length is 0 or -1.

Updates #18257 (aws-go) bug
And also private bug reports about non-AWS issues.

Updates #18407 also, but haven't yet audited things enough to declare
it fixed.

Change-Id: Ie5284d3e067c181839b31faf637eee56e5738a6a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/34668
Run-TryBot: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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