[wp-hackers] HTTP status code on "Release not found" at wp.org

[Alex Günsche]

Hi,

this might be a question rather for the wp.org server admins, so I hope
it's ok to post it here. I don't really know where to refer to, and I
know that some of the responsible people read this list.

I'm building a plugin which among other things downloads a given WP
version from the URL http://wordpress.org/wordpress-XXX.zip using the
Snoopy class. This works fine so far; only if one downloads a version
that doesn't exist, it returns the string "Release not found. XXX" and
-- here comes my problem -- HTTP status code 200.

Of course, I could parse the string, but this is not very reliable. A
better method would be a proper status code, preferably 404. Would that
be possible?


Regards,
Alex

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