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Bug 355112

Summary:	http://git.eclipse.org/c/invalid-file-name doesn't return 404
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Brian de Alwis <bsd>
Component:	Git	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	CLOSED NOT_ECLIPSE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Brian de Alwis

2011-08-18 12:03:23 EDT

I like using bzr to manage access to git source repos (I have a number of tools for bzr that I really like using).  bzr has a plugin, called bzr-git, that works very well in interfacing against git repositories.  bzr-git is being confused by git.eclipse.org however as fetching an invalid file from the Git server results in a 200 rather than a 404:

$ curl -sS -I http://git.eclipse.org/c/vinalid-file-name
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:58:35 GMT
Server: Apache
Expires: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:03:35 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:58:35 GMT
X-NodeID: dev2
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Is it possible to return a 404 in this case?

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2011-08-18 13:51:38 EDT

There's no setting in cgit for that, and I wouldn't expect there to be one.

cgit is a web front-end to git.  It is meant to be human-readable, not machine-readable.

Comment 2 Brian de Alwis

2011-08-18 15:24:24 EDT

Thanks for the information, Denis.  I've marked this as closed.

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2011-08-18 16:55:55 EDT

Thanks.