please explain the hg plugin

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> 2009/12/16 Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au>:
>> Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> writes:
>>
>>> Le mercredi 16 décembre 2009 à 00:52 +0200, Alexander Belchenko a
>>> écrit :
>>>> bzr branch https://spyderlib.googlecode.com/hg/ spyderlib
>>> Unfortunately this doesn't actually appear to work. We have a similar
>>> problem with bzr-hg against Google code as we have for bzr-svn: Google
>>> will return an error 405 when bzr attempts to access
>>> .bzr/branch-format.
>> Does this conform to the HTTP specification? Is there a discovery
>> mechanism that Bazaar can use that would work in the presence of any
>> standards-compliant HTTP service?
> 
> 405 is 'not allowed', which is imo (without rereading the spec) a
> reasonable thing for an http server to do if it doesn't want to let
> you post to that url.  We should probably cleanly handle that as "no
> smart server here?"
> 

Sounds like it could be reasonably treated the same as a 404.

John
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