On 05/24/21 at 08:31pm, Christian Hesse wrote: > Christian Hesse <l...@eworm.de> on Fri, 2021/05/21 10:06: > > By setting an extra HTTP header 'X-Pacman-Expected-Failure' the server can > > indicate that the failure is expected. The next server is tried without > > error message and without increasing the server's error count. > > > > This can be used by servers that are not expected to be complete, for > > example when serving a local cache. > > Any comment on this? > Where to document the behavior? > > BTW, this is the matching branch for pacredir: > https://github.com/eworm-de/pacredir/commits/404-header
I'm not a fan of having this be server-side. I'd rather see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23407 implemented.
