Add a paragraph that browsing to http-backend is not something
that should normally be done
a webserver is configured to unconditionally pass requests
to git-http-backend, without any diversion to a gitweb frontend,
it is helpful to at least be told this.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx>
---
http-backend.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git http-backend.c http-backend.c
index 8f1b69d127..06e17d45a4 100644
--- http-backend.c
+++ http-backend.c
@@ -775,8 +775,15 @@ int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv)
regfree(&re);
}
- if (!cmd)
- not_found(&hdr, "Request not supported: '%s'", dir);
+ if (!cmd) {
+ const char *hint = "";
+ if (strcmp(method, "GET") == 0)
+ hint = "You cannot use regular web browsing to access "
+ "this URL. Only git operations like "
+ "clone/ls-remote/etc. will work.\n";
+ not_found(&hdr, "%s request not supported on '%s'.\n%s",
+ method, dir, hint);
+ }
setup_path();
if (!enter_repo(dir, 0))
--
2.34.0
