Hi, On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:47:37PM +0800, Tay Ray Chuan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Ilari Liusvaara >> > >> > (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. > > Yes, it is normal GET (POST would be something else). And wheither it is CGI > doesn't come into play for request since client decides wheither to send GET > or POST and wheither to include query or not. > > Query is just technical name for part between ? and # (or end of HTTP URL), > and can be present in any type of request that accepts http:// URL. yes, indeed, I misread your message. Your idea of the query string affecting the server response didn't strike me then. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan -- 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