web server broken

[Michael Ellerman]

On 3/4/06, Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:
> On  3 Mar 2006, James Blackwell <jblack at merconline.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:52:39AM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > > James Blackwell wrote:
> > > > Can you indicate with more specificity what exactly is broken?
> > >
> > > bazaar-ng.org is redirecting to bazaar-vcs.org, and bzr doesn't follow
> > > redirects.
> >
> > It worked for me today when I did a bzr pull.
>
> bzr operations on that branch seem to work now, though they definitely
> didn't yesterday.
>
> It now seems to be giving '301 moved permanently'.  This is fine for the
> html and wiki content and file downloads, but I think it's a very bad
> idea for the bzr branches.  It will double the number of http roundtrips
> and we do far too many already.

Wouldn't it be better (in the medium term) if bzr understood the 301?
It'd also be cool if it honoured a 302 for the duration of one op (ie.
pull/push/etc.). Then you could have a canonical http URL which
redirects to where you're currently hosting it.

cheers