Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden

From: Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com>
Date: Mar 22, 2006, 17:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20060322172227.GO3997@reactrix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060322025921.1722.qmail@science.horizon.com>

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:59:21PM -0500, linux@horizon.com wrote:

> If someone feels ambitious, you can detect this condition automatically
> by searching for a file that you know won't be there and seeing if you
> get a 404 response to that.

It might be feasible to detect this condition using the Content-Type: header in the server response. So far, all the GIT repositories I've tried return text/plain for loose objects and a special 404 page will likely be text/html.

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