From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:47:37 GMT
Subject: Re: problem cloning via http since v1.6.6-rc0
Message-ID: <be6fef0d1001202247l7467a14ap8181eb3ed830167a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100121050850.GA18896@Knoppix>

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Ilari Liusvaara
<ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:
> Looks like remote-curl (which handles http) issues request for:
>
> '.../info/refs?service=git-upload-pack'
>
> And expects that if there is no smart HTTP server there for the request to be
> interpretted as:
>
> '.../info/refs'
>
> (i.e. webserver would ignore the query). This isn't true for git.debian.org.
> Requesting the latter works (and the data formatting looks sane), but the
> former is 404. This causes the fetch to fail.

afaik, putting a "?var1=val1&var2=...." still makes it a normal GET
request, even if the url requested is just a plain file and not some
cgi handler that uses those variables/values.

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Cheers,
Ray Chuan