Comment 2 for bug 36004

Some sites mod_rewrite requests to the top page for the site when in
dirindex mode.

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:01:50PM -0000, James Henstridge wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36004
>
> Affects: bzr (upstream)
> Severity: Normal
> Priority: (none set)
> Status: Unconfirmed
>
> Description:
> It would be nice if bzr handled HTTP redirects sanely.
>
> If getting http://hostname/location/.bzr results in a redirection to
> some other URL, it should send further requests to the target URL.
>
> In the case of a temporary HTTP redirect, it should use the new URL for
> the duration of the bzr invocation.
>
> In the case of a permanent HTTP redirect, bzr should record the new URL
> if it would normally have recorded the old URL. For example, "bzr pull"
> might update .bzr/parent, and "bzr branch http://..." would record the
> target URL rather than the specified one.

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