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From: Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm@o2.pl>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com>
Subject: Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:24:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603222224.08061.astralstorm@o2.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vslpa8fld.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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On Wednesday 22 March 2006 20:05, Junio C Hamano wrote yet:
>
> .. and note if that is an HTML document or not.
>

Better yet, see first if the object is corrupt. If it is and its Content-Type 
is text/html, error out.

> We do bend backwards to support ISP HTTP servers, but this might
> be going a bit too far.  Also I wonder if ISP runs a really
> dumb-friendly configured server that defaults to text/html
> unless the mimemap says otherwise.  Loose object files do not
> have suffixes and I am expecting these servers would give
> whatever the server default is.

That server would break a *lot* of file types. That admin should be hanged, 
shot, then burned.

I think of only one reason for doing that: to restrict file types posted on 
the server to, say, zip and html.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-22 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-22  2:59 Cloning from sites with 404 overridden linux
2006-03-22  3:12 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-03-22  4:13   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-22  6:06 ` Marco Costalba
2006-03-22  6:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-22 13:36 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-24 17:29   ` Mark Wooding
2006-03-24 17:52     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-24 17:53     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-24 18:16     ` Morten Welinder
2006-03-24 18:40     ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-22 17:22 ` Nick Hengeveld
2006-03-22 18:36   ` Nick Hengeveld
2006-03-22 19:05     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-22 19:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-23 18:43         ` Nick Hengeveld
2006-03-23 20:45           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-22 21:24       ` Radoslaw Szkodzinski [this message]
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2006-03-19 10:52 Marco Costalba
2006-03-19 13:25 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-03-19 14:04   ` Marco Costalba
2006-03-19 19:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-19 21:40       ` Marco Costalba
2006-03-19 23:21         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-20  6:31           ` Marco Costalba
2006-03-20  8:44             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-20 12:17               ` Marco Costalba
2006-03-20 18:29       ` Lukas Sandström
2006-03-20 19:43         ` Petr Baudis
2006-03-20 19:54         ` Nick Hengeveld
2006-03-19 19:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-19 21:31       ` Petr Baudis
2006-03-19 21:43         ` Petr Baudis
2006-03-19 21:45         ` Marco Costalba
2006-03-20  4:32       ` Randal L. Schwartz

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