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Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Mar 22, 2006, 19:22 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
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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.

Clarification. Even if a server configured as such existed and sent an otherwise valid loose object with text/html, your code does the right thing.

However the patch would not help when such a server also did a "Sorry, did you mistype the URL?" HTML response, and I was wondering how typical that would be.

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Message 15 of 18 in “Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden”
  1. linux@horizon.comMar 22, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceMar 22, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsMar 22, 2006
  4. Marco CostalbaMar 22, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2006
  6. Andreas EricssonMar 22, 2006
  7. Mark WoodingMar 24, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2006
  9. Linus TorvaldsMar 24, 2006
  10. Morten WelinderMar 24, 2006
  11. Andreas EricssonMar 24, 2006
  12. Nick HengeveldMar 22, 2006
  13. Nick HengeveldMar 22, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2006
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2006
  16. Nick HengeveldMar 23, 2006
  17. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2006
  18. Radoslaw SzkodzinskiMar 22, 2006

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