Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Document the HTTP transport protocol

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:

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On 2009-10-09, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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+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