Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden

From: Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm@o2.pl>
Date: Mar 22, 2006, 21:24 UTC
Message-ID: <200603222224.08061.astralstorm@o2.pl>
In-Reply-To: <7vslpa8fld.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 20:05, Junio C Hamano wrote yet:

>
> .. and note if that is an HTML document or not.
>

Better yet, see first if the object is corrupt. If it is and its Content-Type is text/html, error out.

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> 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.

That server would break a *lot* of file types. That admin should be hanged, shot, then burned.

I think of only one reason for doing that: to restrict file types posted on the server to, say, zip and html.

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