my $url = "$prefix/$package$suffix";
my @cmd = (qw(curl -sS -I), $url);
my $result = cmdoutput @cmd;
+ $result =~ s/^\S+ 200 .*\n\r?\n//;
+ # curl -sS -I with https_proxy prints
+ # HTTP/1.0 200 Connection established
$result =~ m/^\S+ (404|200) /s or
fail "unexpected results from git check query - ".
Dumper($prefix, $result);