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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.