From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Document the HTTP transport protocol Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:59:25 -0700 Message-ID: <4AD80BBD.8080504@zytor.com> References: <1255065768-10428-1-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> <1255065768-10428-2-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> <7vskdss3ei.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 16 08:01:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MyfsF-0005qW-Sa for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:01:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752534AbZJPGAF (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:00:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752380AbZJPGAF (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:00:05 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45499 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750944AbZJPGAE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:00:04 -0400 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (c-98-210-181-100.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [98.210.181.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9G5xP6m010046 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:59:26 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b3 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 10/10/2009 03:12 AM, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 2009-10-09, Junio C Hamano 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.