Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Mar 22, 2006, 13:36 UTC
Message-ID: <442152E0.4020604@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20060322025921.1722.qmail@science.horizon.com>

linux@horizon.com wrote:

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> 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.
> 
> To avoid punishing good servers, it would be nice to defer the test
> until reciving the first corrupted object.
> 
> I'm not sure what the best "object that's not supposed to be there" is.

.git/objects/00/hoping-for-a-404-or-webadmin-should-fix

It has the right number of chars so it should fit in wherever a real object name does but is obviously bogus anyways.

> It could just be a random hash, or would a malformed object file name
> be better?

A malformed object name is infinitely better. Otherwise we'd end up with a wild guess that hits home some day, to much surprise and a bug-report I wouldn't want to track. Not to mention the embarrassment when explaining why that object-name was chosen.

> 
> (As an aside, I suspect this is all caused by Microsoft's "friendly HTML
> error messages" invention.)

The body of the 404-page has absolutely nothing to do with it.

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