Create image --location <invalid_URL> image status active

[Tzach Shefi]

Description of problem: Upload image --location <invalid_URL> -> image status active, should fail alerting user.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL6.5
openstack-glance-2013.2.3-2.el6ost.noarch

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. upload image using --location <invalid_URL>
2. glance image-list, images's status is active

Actual results:
Glance image-list, image's status is: active.

Users may try to boot instances from this image (it's active), booting an instance from this "active" image does indeed boot successfully without error, but has nothing to boot, no boot device.

Expected results:

Alert should notify user that URL is invalid.

Additional info:
When using --copy-from image status is queued, which should also return an alert about invalid URL.

[Zhi Yan Liu (lzy-dev)]

May I know what the invalid URL is in your case?

[Flavio Percoco (flaper87)]

I think this is kind of a duplicate of #1257273

Basically, non (or at least most of) the store backend don't have a good way to check if the location is valid. We fetch the size but, in most of the cases, when an error occurs it's caught and never re-raised. The fix for the aforementioned bug raises an HTTP error when the HTTP location is invalid.