On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Christian Mertes <cmer...@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote: > by kjon 2010-03-24T16:40:21+00:00. >> In Philip Semanchuk writes: >> >On Mar 24, 2010, at 12:05 PM, kj wrote: >> >> In the last couple of weeks, docs.python.org has been down repeatedly >> >> (like right now). Has anyone else noticed this? >> >http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/docs.python.org >> Very handy. Thanks! >> ~K > > Hey kjon, > > I just found your mail in the archives because I've been experiencing the > same weird problems and I couldn't believe they wouldn't fix their server > for such a long time. I'd like to know what downforeveryoneorjustme.com does > because it's so lightning fast. Pinging the server? Works for me. Looking for > port 80? It's open. Connecting to it and getting a web page? That's where > things > start to get interesting: > >> $ telnet docs.python.org 80 >> Trying 2001:888:2000:d::a2... >> Trying 82.94.164.162... >> Connected to docs.python.org. >> Escape character is '^]'. >> GET / HTTP/1.0 >> >> >> >> Connection closed by foreign host. > > ... after a really long time. The server wouldn't serve me. Opera reports a > network error right away though, not waiting for a timeout. And the best part: > Chrome and Firefox just get me the website. Wireshark reveals that both latter > browsers get a "304 Not Modified" response and then do a lot of weird stuff > involving > DNS as well as HTTP to finally deliver a web page. Opera does no such thing > but only > sends a request to 2001:888:2000:d::a2. Yeah, right, that's an IPv6 address. > I really don't understand the details of what's going on here but chances are > that you also use Opera, kjon and those who replied to you didn't? > > I reported docs.python.org as a broken page to the Opera devs but I'm also > Ccing this > mail to the server admin because this seems to be a more complex problem than > just > a broken (if at all) web browser. > > Best regards, > > Christian >
Worked for me: ~/isos2burn> telnet docs.python.org 80 Trying 82.94.164.162... Connected to docs.python.org. Escape character is '^]'. GET/HTTP/1.0 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>302 Found</title> </head><body> <h1>Found</h1> <p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.python.org";>here</a>.</p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.1 mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_wsgi/2.5 Python/2.5.2 Server at dinsdale.python.org Port 80</address> </body></html> Connection closed by foreign host. ~/isos2burn> date Wed May 19 09:49:11 PDT 2010 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
