Re: git clone over HTTP returns 500 on invalid host name

Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] 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?