On 21/03/2010, Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> wrote: > > Re: > http://www.takeyellow.com/apachemirror/spamassassin/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.2.tar.gz.asc > > The page in question is a 404 error page (see headers below) as of > 9:48AMEDT on the 21st of March. So they are still behind on the mirroring > and the default 404 they are using is not appropriate for mirror space. I > would support a rule that a default 404 for mirror space should redirect > them back to the original project page.
+1 Their 404 page handling is very confusing - it's not immediately obvious that the problem is a missing file. I would favour disallowing 404 error pages for mirrors - just return 404. I think we should ban the behaviour of takeyellow entirely. > Regards, > KAM > > > Response Headers - > http://www.takeyellow.com/apachemirror/spamassassin/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.2.tar.gz.asc > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:37:26 GMT > Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/0.9.8m DAV/2 > mod_fcgid/2.3.5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 > FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 > X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.13 > Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT > Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, > pre-check=0 > Pragma: no-cache > Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 > Connection: Keep-Alive > Transfer-Encoding: chunked > Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 > > 404 Not Found > > > >
