[Distutils] Good news everyone, PyPI is behind a CDN

[Ralf Schmitt]

Noah Kantrowitz <noah at coderanger.net> writes:

>> 
>> 
>> the xmlrpc api is broken when using http 1.0. the second call to curl
>> uses http/1.0 and returns an empty response:
>> 
>> $ cat >body.txt <<EOF
>> <?xml version='1.0'?>
>> <methodCall>
>> <methodName>package_releases</methodName>
>> <params>
>> <param>
>> <value><string>e</string></value>
>> </param>
>> </params>
>> </methodCall>
>> EOF
>> $ curl -X POST -d @body.txt http://pypi.python.org/pypi --header "Content-Type:text/xml"
>> <?xml version='1.0'?>
>> <methodResponse>
>> <params>
>> <param>
>> <value><array><data>
>> <value><string>1.4.5</string></value>
>> </data></array></value>
>> </param>
>> </params>
>> </methodResponse>
>> $ curl -0 -X POST -d @body.txt http://pypi.python.org/pypi --header "Content-Type:text/xml"
>> $ 
>
> We have not supported HTTP 1.0 for quite some time. 

well, it has been working until at least last friday.

> Even before the CDN move, we used the Host header to route between
> different HAProxy server blocks on the load balancers. I'm unaware of
> any reason people would be using HTTP 1.0 clients at this point, HTTP
> 1.1 has been a standard for 14 years now.

the fact that you are unaware of any reason people would be using HTTP
1.0 is not a good reason not to support it.

python 2.6 xmlrpclib uses HTTP/1.0!

-- 
Cheers
Ralf