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From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, msysgit@googlegroups.com,
	Tom Preston-Werner <tom@mojombo.com>
Subject: Re: Issue 323 in msysgit: Can't clone over http
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 21:10:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <be6fef0d0909080610j89c0a4bkf1cb0119b9b11db@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7hwatw0v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I am torn about this.
>
> On one hand, if we are going to treat such a half failure as nothing
> conclusive, I do not see a point to keep that check to begin with.
>
> On the other hand, if a HEAD request to a URL results in an unauthorized,
> what plausible excuse the server operator could give for allowing a GET
> request to the same URL?  If we are going to keep the check if *.pack that
> corresponds to the *.idx will be available, shouldn't we trust whatever
> check we perform?

I am in favour or removing this check, not just due to its
unreliability, but for the sake of consistency (we very rarely send a
HEAD request to poll data before doing a GET).

Do disregard the patch included earlier, if you haven't already done so.

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-08 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <0016e6470f36315b8a0472bc75a8@google.com>
2009-09-04 10:25 ` Issue 323 in msysgit: Can't clone over http Junio C Hamano
2009-09-04 13:29 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-09-07  4:59   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-07  5:53     ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-09-07  7:10       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-07  8:18         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-07  9:27         ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-09-07 19:06           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-08 12:57             ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-08 13:18               ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-09-08 13:10             ` Tay Ray Chuan [this message]
2009-09-09 12:33             ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-09-09 19:08               ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-11  8:54               ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-12 10:01                 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-09-12 17:31                   ` Junio C Hamano

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