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From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
Subject: Re: bin/5074: fetch cannot retrieve a URL
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The following reply was made to PR bin/5074; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To: mph@pobox.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/5074: fetch cannot retrieve a URL
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:38:33 -0700 (MST)

 On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 mph@pobox.com wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 > 
 > fetch cannot retrieve the URL:
 > 
 > $ fetch http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/2055/c2ps-40.tgz
 > fetch: reading reply from www.geocities.com: Connection reset by peer
 > 
 > $ tcpdump -tp host www.geocities.com
 > tcpdump: listening on ed0
 > mph124.rh.psu.edu.4174 > 209.1.224.11.http: SP 3332479440:3332479540(100) win 16728 <mss 1460,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,timestamp[|tcp]> (DF)
 > 209.1.224.11.http > mph124.rh.psu.edu.4174: S 1234567:1234567(0) ack 3332479441 win 2048
 > mph124.rh.psu.edu.4174 > 209.1.224.11.http: FP 101:166(65) ack 1 win 16728 (DF)
 > 209.1.224.11.http > mph124.rh.psu.edu.4174: R 1:1(0) ack 102 win 2048
 
 The server is broken.  Use the -t option to fetch to work around it.  I
 tried to contact them months ago to see what broken monstrosity they were
 using for an OS, but (predictably) got no response.
 
 Not sure if there is a nice way to have a port automatically add this...
 hmm...