From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Document the HTTP transport protocol Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:19:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20091016071942.GC3009@glandium.org> References: <1255065768-10428-1-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> <1255065768-10428-2-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> <7vskdss3ei.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4AD80BBD.8080504@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho , git@vger.kernel.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 16 09:26:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MyhCu-00037K-LG for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:26:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755882AbZJPHTf (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:19:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755751AbZJPHTf (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:19:35 -0400 Received: from vuizook.err.no ([85.19.221.46]:36734 "EHLO vuizook.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753427AbZJPHTe (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:19:34 -0400 Received: from cha92-13-88-165-248-19.fbx.proxad.net ([88.165.248.19] helo=jigen) by vuizook.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Myh5R-0002nU-4n; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:18:55 +0200 Received: from mh by jigen with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Myh6E-0000n3-3O; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:19:42 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AD80BBD.8080504@zytor.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Status: (score 0.1): No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=disabled version=3.2.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 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)? > > > > 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... Mike