Hi, On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 05:16:01AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:02:40AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Package: devscripts > > Version: 2.8.14 > > Severity: normal > > > > It is my impression that current uscan program downloads the upstream > > package believing indicated web page information but it does not check > > the sanity of downloaded file contents after the download. > > > > For some URL such as ones starting http://prdownloads.sf.net , > > the download link sometimes return the original web page or similar (I > > confirmed this by "wget".) This seems to be intentional action on the > > miror site when user do not pay for subscription fee for some link. [*] > > Good idea. See also bug #242884 (http://bugs.debian.org/242884), > where no particularly good resolution is reached regarding SF > websites.
I overlooked it due to its title. This promptedme to look into a bit. Funny thing is I can download tar.gz archive with Mozilla. I do not think I subscribe despite their web site talk about subscription. The page's source of Mozilla page says: <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="5; URL=http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/scim/skim-1.2.1.tar.bz2";> <TITLE>Downloading File: /scim/skim-1.2.1.tar.bz2</TITLE> </HEAD> (... long page) This page is almost like what I download with wget command but wget downloaded file does not seem to have "refresh" thing. Maybe HOST reply differently based on browser type. Some browsers get this refresh command so we can download file. While downloading, original page stays in mozilla display. I am not expert of HTML but this may be it. Does uscan pretend more like mozilla to the browser type query and does it follow the page refresh directive ? (5 second wait too) If this is the root cause, may be we can fix it by root cause. That is my addition to the bug on #242884 (thus CCEd to get the BTS web page list this contents. Let's continue discussion on #242884 for this issue). Afterall, so many packages use SF as upstream, I will be happy to get them updated. What ever the case with #242884, download file content sanity need to be checked and it is my normal bug with #303958. Osamu (I will be off-line for few days now.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
