Add TODO item and update README

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 64af567..9c4fca0 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -113,3 +113,7 @@ This means that 'Lorry' has tried to pull an invalid Github URL. The .lorry
 entry for the current package lists the wrong URL. This may be due to bad
 metadata, an error in the .to_lorry program (check the log file), or a wrong
 URL in a .lorry file because someone wrote it wrong.
+
+The TODO file notes that if the .to_lorry program tried fetching the URL first
+and detecting if it returns a 404 'not found' error then we wouldn't hit this
+problem.
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 03049b1..b2a4601 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -17,3 +17,8 @@ the version number'. It'd be nice if this were possible. Doing this on
 the commandline would get overly verbose, but it'd be possible to add a
 section in the config file such as [ref-overrides] and allow the user to
 list them there.
+
+If the .to_lorry program tried fetching the URL first and detecting if it
+returns a 404 'not found' error then we wouldn't hit the problem of seeing a
+'Username for 'https://github.com':' prompt for invalid URLs in .lorry files
+as much.