Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:36:51 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: fenner@freebsd.org, itojun@itojun.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports: 1 unfetchable distfiles: sysutils/mei Message-ID: <97Oct21.173657pdt.177487@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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Yuck. I explicitly flag HTTP redirections as being unfetchable, under the assumption that the only reason for an HTTP redirect is to point to the new canonical location, and the old canonical location will be going away soon. Now that there's some history parsing in the results script, the checking script can check the redirected-to URL and log it, and if in the future the original site goes away, the redirected URL will have been logged in the history. Bill
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