From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <antti-juhani@kaijanaho.fi>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Document the HTTP transport protocol
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:59:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD80BBD.8080504@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnhd0nfv.tq2.antti-juhani@kukkaseppele.kaijanaho.fi>
On 10/10/2009 03:12 AM, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On 2009-10-09, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> +If there is no repository at $GIT_URL, the server MUST respond with
>>> +the '404 Not Found' HTTP status code.
>>
>> We may also want to add
>>
>> If there is no object at $GIT_URL/some/path, the server MUST respond
>> with the '404 Not Found' HTTP status code.
>>
>> to help dumb clients.
>
> In both cases - is it really necessary to forbid the use of 410 (Gone)?
>
410 means "we once had it, it's no longer here, no idea where it went."
It's a largely useless code...
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-16 6:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-09 5:22 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Return of smart HTTP Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:22 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] Document the HTTP transport protocol Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:22 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:22 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] Add smart-http options to upload-pack, receive-pack Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:22 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] Smart fetch and push over HTTP: server side Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:52 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport J.H.
2009-10-09 8:01 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] Document the HTTP transport protocol Sverre Rabbelier
2009-10-09 8:09 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-10-09 8:54 ` Alex Blewitt
2009-10-15 16:39 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 19:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-10-09 19:50 ` Jeff King
2009-10-15 16:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-15 17:39 ` Jeff King
2009-10-09 20:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-10 10:12 ` Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
2009-10-16 5:59 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-10-16 7:19 ` Mike Hommey
2009-10-16 14:21 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-16 14:23 ` Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
2010-04-07 18:16 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-07 18:19 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-07 19:11 ` (resend v2) " Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-07 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-08 1:47 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-07 19:24 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-10-10 12:17 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-06 4:57 ` Scott Chacon
2010-04-06 6:09 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <u2hd411cc4a1004060652k5a7f8ea4l67a9b079963f4dc4@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-06 13:53 ` Scott Chacon
2010-04-06 17:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 00/14] document edits to original http protocol documentation Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 01/14] Document the HTTP transport protocol Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 02/14] normalize indentation with protcol-common.txt Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 03/14] capitalize key words according to RFC 2119 Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 04/14] normalize rules with RFC 5234 Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 05/14] drop rules, etc. common to the pack protocol Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 06/14] reword behaviour on missing repository or objects Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 07/14] weaken specification over cookies for authentication Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 08/14] mention different variations around $GIT_URL Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 09/14] reduce ambiguity over '?' in $GIT_URL for dumb clients Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 10/14] fix example request/responses Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 11/14] be clearer in place of 'remote repository' phrase Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 12/14] reduce confusion over smart server response behaviour Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 13/14] shift dumb server response details Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 14/14] mention effect of "allow-tip-sha1-in-want" capability on git-upload-pack Tay Ray Chuan
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