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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:22:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vacbi8eu1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vslpa8fld.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:05:50 -0800")

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> 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.

Clarification.  Even if a server configured as such existed and
sent an otherwise valid loose object with text/html, your code
does the right thing.

However the patch would not help when such a server also did a
"Sorry, did you mistype the URL?" HTML response, and I was
wondering how typical that would be.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-22 19:22 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 [this message]
2006-03-23 18:43         ` Nick Hengeveld
2006-03-23 20:45           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-22 21:24       ` Radoslaw Szkodzinski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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