* For url downloads, git-annex now defaults to using a http library,
rather than wget or curl. But, if annex.web-options is set, it will
use curl. To use the .netrc file, run:
git config annex.web-options --netrc
* git-annex no longer uses wget (and wget is no longer shipped with
git-annex builds).
Note that curl is always run in silent mode, since the new API for
download has a MeterUpdate and doesn't make way for curl progress
output. It might be worth writing a parser for curl's progress output
to update the meter when using it, but I didn't bother with this edge
case for now.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
Remote.S3 and Remote.Helper.Http both had similar code to sink a
http-conduit Response to a file; refactor out sinkResponseFile.
downloadC downloads an url to a file using http-conduit, and supports
resuming. Falls back to curl to handle urls that http-conduit does not
support. This is not used yet, but the goal is to replace download with
it.
git-annex.cabal: conduit-extra was not actually used for a long time,
remove the dep. conduit moves into the main dependency list, but since
http-conduit was already in there, and it depends on conduit, that's not
really adding a new build dep.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
Enable HTTP connection reuse across multiple files, when git-annex
uses http-conduit. Before, a new Manager was created each time
Utility.Url used it. Now, a single Manager gets created the first time,
so connections are reused.
Doesn't help when external programs are used for url download,
but does speed up addurl --fast, fsck --from web, etc.
Testing fsck --fast --from web with 3 files, over high-latency
satellite internet, it sped up from 19.37s to 14.96s.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
Fourth or fifth try at this and finally found a way to make it work.
Absurd amount of busy-work forced on me by change in cabal's behavior.
Split up Utility modules that need posix stuff out of ones used by
Setup. Various other hacks around inability for Setup to use anything
that ifdefs a use of unix.
Probably lost a full day of my life to this.
This is how build systems make their users hate them. Just saying.
This avoids warnings from stack about the module not being listed in the
cabal file. So, the generated file is also renamed to Build/SysConfig.
Note that the setup program seems to be cached despite these changes; I
had to cabal clean to get cabal to update it so that Build/SysConfig was
written.
This commit was sponsored by Jochen Bartl on Patreon.
Now youtubeDlCheck downloads the beginning of the url's content and
checks if it's html, only when it is does it pass it off the youtube-dl
to check if it supports it.
This means more work is done for urls that youtube-dl does support,
but is probably more efficient for other urls, since it only downloads
the first chunk of content, while youtube-dl probably downloads more.
As well as the reported bug, this also fixes behavior when an url
was added with youtube-dl, but the url content has now changed from
a html page to something else. Remote.Web.checkKey used to wrongly
succeed in that situation, since youtube-dl said sure it can download
that something else.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
webdav: Checking if a non-existent file is present on Box.com triggered a
bug in its webdav support that generates an infinite series of redirects.
It seems to redirect foo to foo/ to foo/index.php to
foo/index.php/index.php ... Why a webdav endpoint would behave this way
who knows.
Deal with such problems by assuming such behavior means the file is not
present.
Can't simply disable following redirects, because the webdav endpoint could
legitimately be redirected to a new endpoint. So, when this happens
10 redirects have to be followed, before it gives up and assumes this means
the file does not exist.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
* Run curl with -S, so HTTP errors are displayed, even when
it's otherwise silent.
* When downloading in --json or --quiet mode, use curl in preference
to wget, since curl is able to display only errors to stderr, unlike
wget.
This does mean that downloadQuiet is only silent on stdout, not necessarily
on stderr, which affects a couple other calls of it. For example,
downloading the .git/config of a http remote may show an error message now,
perhaps with slightly suboptimal formatting due to other output.
This adds one extra line of output when a download is successful,
after the progress bar. I don't much like that, but wget does not provide a
way to show HTTP errors without it.
This is the kind of annoying thing that makes me not want to use a library.
conduitManagerSettings was a perfectly fine name and could have been kept
forever.
Since I want git-annex to keep building on debian stable, I need to still
support the old http-client, which required explicit calls to
closeManager, or use of withManager to get Managers to close at appropriate
times. This is not needed in the new version, and so they added a
deprecation warning. IMHO much too early, because look at the mess I had to
go through to avoid that deprecation warning while supporting both
versions..
This removes a bit of complexity, and should make things faster
(avoids tokenizing Params string), and probably involve less garbage
collection.
In a few places, it was useful to use Params to avoid needing a list,
but that is easily avoided.
Problems noticed while doing this conversion:
* Some uses of Params "oneword" which was entirely unnecessary
overhead.
* A few places that built up a list of parameters with ++
and then used Params to split it!
Test suite passes.
That failed on OSX. The temp dir was
/var/folders/fb/pnwjj52n7fg0r9mnvpsfll180000gr/T/downloadurl
and the relative path
../../../../../../Volumes/Visitors/joeyh/git-annex/r/.git/...
Didn't work. I have no clue why, how did OSX manage to break this?
But, the relative path is longer most of the time anyway, so let's
just use the absolute path.
In this situation, curl -o exits successfully without creating the output
file.
There was already a workaround for curl file:/// but I did not realize this
also affected regular url downloads.
To fix it, pre-create the destination file before starting curl.
Since we cannot always know the size of an url before trying to download
it, let's always do this.
Note that since curl is told -C -, we have to consider if this
makes curl try to do a ranged download, which might fail on some servers
where a regular download would have succeeded. My testing indicates
this isn't a problem; since the file is empty, curl seems to not try to
do a ranged download.
Original report: https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/79
Curl bug report: https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/183
Avoid using fileSize which maxes out at just 2 gb on Windows.
Instead, use hFileSize, which doesn't have a bounded size.
Fixes support for files > 2 gb on Windows.
Note that the InodeCache code only needs to compare a file size,
so it doesn't matter it the file size wraps. So it has been
left as-is. This was necessary both to avoid invalidating existing inode
caches, and because the code passed FileStatus around and would have become
more expensive if it called getFileSize.
This commit was sponsored by Christian Dietrich.
