"necessary data rewind wasn't possible" using pycurl against https

[James Ebentier]

I ran the command:
bzr co https://....

and this is what was spit out

bzr: failed to report crash using apport:
     OSError(13, 'Permission denied')
bzr: ERROR: pycurl.error: (65, "necessary data rewind wasn't possible")

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 912, in exception_to_return_code
    return the_callable(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 1112, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 690, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 705, in run
    return self._operation.run_simple(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/cleanup.py", line 135, in run_simple
    self.cleanups, self.func, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/cleanup.py", line 165, in _do_with_cleanups
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 1321, in run
    branch_location)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 1032, in open_tree_or_branch
    bzrdir = klass.open(location)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 911, in open
    return BzrDir.open_from_transport(t, _unsupported=_unsupported)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 941, in open_from_transport
    redirected)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/lazy_import.py", line 125, in __call__
    return obj(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/transport/__init__.py", line 1657, in do_catching_redirections
    return action(transport)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 928, in find_format
    transport, _server_formats=_server_formats)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 1949, in find_format
    return format.probe_transport(transport)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 3292, in probe_transport
    server_version = medium.protocol_version()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/smart/medium.py", line 632, in protocol_version
    client_protocol.query_version()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/smart/protocol.py", line 791, in query_version
    self.call('hello')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/smart/protocol.py", line 631, in call
    self._request.finished_writing()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/smart/medium.py", line 439, in finished_writing
    self._finished_writing()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/transport/http/__init__.py", line 646, in _finished_writing
    data = self._medium.send_http_smart_request(self._buffer)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/transport/http/__init__.py", line 615, in send_http_smart_request
    code, body_filelike = t._post(bytes)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/transport/http/_pycurl.py", line 265, in _post
    self._curl_perform(curl, header, ['Expect: '])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/transport/http/_pycurl.py", line 353, in _curl_perform
    curl.perform()
error: (65, "necessary data rewind wasn't possible")

bzr 2.2.1 on python 2.6.6 (Linux-2.6.35-25-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-10.10-maverick)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'co', 'https://<email address hidden>/teamstella/trunk']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_US.utf8'
plugins:
  bash_completion /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/bash_completion [2.2.1]
  bzrtools /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/bzrtools [2.2.0]
  launchpad /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [2.2.1]
  netrc_credential_store /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/netrc_credential_store [2.2.1]
  news_merge /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/news_merge [2.2.1]

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[Andrew Bennetts (spiv)]

Two workarounds you can try:

 * change the URL to nosmart+https://...
 * change the URL to https+urllib://...

(rather than https://...)

I wonder why trying a POST over HTTPS is causing that error... if you can, try installing bzr 2.3 (there's a PPA with debs for maverick) and see if it helps, I think there's been some small changes to the pycurl support in 2.3 that might help.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

This looks like bug 682904 and bug 365874, which claim to have been fixed.

James, is this actually a bzr repository (the name certainly suggests so) or svn? The other occurrences seem associated with https.

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/transport/http/_pycurl.py", line 265, in _post
    self._curl_perform(curl, header, ['Expect: '])

This makes me suspect it is a problem with 100-continue handling in bzr, the server, or elsewhere.