Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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)? My original text got taken a bit out of context here. I guess MUST was too strong of a word. I more ment something like: If there is no repository at $GIT_URL, the server MUST NOT respond with '200 OK' and a valid info/refs response. A server SHOULD respond with '404 Not Found', '410 Gone', or any other suitable HTTP status code which does not imply the resource exists as requested. > > 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... I know. I broke a URL on a site back in Janurary, MSN keeps crawling it anyway. F'king spiders. -- Shawn. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html