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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: git clone over HTTP returns 500 on invalid host name
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:40:56 -0700
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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> $ git clone https://this.host.does.not.exist/foo
> Cloning into 'foo'...
> error: The requested URL returned error: 500 while accessing
> http://this.host.does.not.exist/foo/info/refs
> fatal: HTTP request failed
>
>
> Hmm. Telling me the host doesn't exist is more useful than 500:
>
> $ git clone git://this.host.does.not.exist/foo
> Cloning into 'foo'...
> fatal: Unable to look up this.host.does.not.exist (port 9418) (Name or
> service not known)
>
>
> Does anyone care about this other than me?  :-)


$ git clone https://this.host.does.not.exist/foo
Cloning into 'foo'...
error: Couldn't resolve host 'this.host.does.not.exist' while accessing https://this.host.does.not.exist/foo/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed

What are we doing differently?  Perhaps you have a custom proxy that
throws 500 back at you or something?