Elasticsearch server validation is incompatible with some builds about elasticsearch-ruby HOT 5 CLOSED

The team is going to look into this.

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Another datapoint - on our CI we don't get this header at all on a linux build of version 7.8.1:

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Out of curiosity I tried the latest 7.17.2 linux build which does include the header but again with capitalized X:

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Hi @dbackeus,
Thanks for reporting this. It looks like you're trying to use an 8.x release of the client with Elasticsearch 7.17.2. As we mention in Compatibility, clients are forward compatible. So for your case I'd suggest using version 7.17 of the client, since it will fail the validation otherwise.

The header was introduced in a newer version of 7.x (7.14 if I recall correctly), it was not present in 7.8.1.

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I see.

If so, perhaps it would make more sense for this validator to just compare the version variable extracted from the server response with the gem version and raise a humanly readable error when the Elasticsearch server version is lower than the gem version?

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