fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET <<<<<

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fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET <<<<<

From: Alan Sargent <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:50:27

Hello,

The "fatal: protocol error: bad line length character" seems fairly
common, but in the archive and the faq there isn't reference to this
particular instances - GET.

alan@toaster:~$ git init myrepo
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/nev/myrepo/.git/
alan@toaster:~$ cd myrepo
alan@toaster:~/myrepo$ git daemon
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET  << just hitting
F5 in the browser
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET
browser showing Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET

This is on Ubuntu, git installed fresh or built it from latest stable
source. Same on a repo that has stuff in it.

Anyone know why?

Cheers.

Re: fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET <<<<<

From: Ilari Liusvaara <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:50:27

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:53:11PM +0800, Alan Sargent wrote:
Hello,

The "fatal: protocol error: bad line length character" seems fairly
common, but in the archive and the faq there isn't reference to this
particular instances - GET.

alan@toaster:~$ git init myrepo
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/nev/myrepo/.git/
alan@toaster:~$ cd myrepo
alan@toaster:~/myrepo$ git daemon
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET  << just hitting
F5 in the browser
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET
[...]

Git daemon serves git:// protocol, not HTTP, you can't access it from
web browser.

If you are looking for Git repository web interface, look at gitweb
or cgit.

The error is because HTTP begins the request with "GET " and git
daemon is trying to interpret that as length of packet, failing
and spitting out a fatal error.

-Ilari

Re: fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET <<<<<

From: Alan Sargent <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:50:27

Ah! Thank you very much.

:)

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Ilari Liusvaara
[off-list ref] wrote:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:53:11PM +0800, Alan Sargent wrote:
quoted
Hello,

The "fatal: protocol error: bad line length character" seems fairly
common, but in the archive and the faq there isn't reference to this
particular instances - GET.

alan@toaster:~$ git init myrepo
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/nev/myrepo/.git/
alan@toaster:~$ cd myrepo
alan@toaster:~/myrepo$ git daemon
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET  << just hitting
F5 in the browser
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: GET
[...]

Git daemon serves git:// protocol, not HTTP, you can't access it from
web browser.

If you are looking for Git repository web interface, look at gitweb
or cgit.

The error is because HTTP begins the request with "GET " and git
daemon is trying to interpret that as length of packet, failing
and spitting out a fatal error.

-Ilari
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