From: Mike Hommey Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:19:42 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Document the HTTP transport protocol Message-ID: <20091016071942.GC3009@glandium.org> In-Reply-To: <4AD80BBD.8080504@zytor.com> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:59:25PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 10/10/2009 03:12 AM, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > On 2009-10-09, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >>> +If there is no repository at $GIT_URL, the server MUST respond with > >>> +the '404 Not Found' HTTP status code. > >> > >> We may also want to add > >> > >> If there is no object at $GIT_URL/some/path, the server MUST respond > >> with the '404 Not Found' HTTP status code. > >> > >> to help dumb clients. > > > > In both cases - is it really necessary to forbid the use of 410 (Gone)? > > > > 410 means "we once had it, it's no longer here, no idea where it went." > It's a largely useless code... There is an additional meaning to it, that is "it will never ever return". It thus has a stronger meaning than 404. Sadly, not even search engine spiders consider it as a hint to not crawl there in the future... Mike