From: Nick Hengeveld Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:22:27 GMT Subject: Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden 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. -- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.