From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 12 14: 6:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [216.240.39.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C07EE14F13 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:06:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 47877 invoked by uid 100); 12 Oct 1999 21:06:52 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Oct 1999 21:06:52 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:06:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/14287: Fix distfile survey for databases/cdb In-Reply-To: <199910121830.LAA09294@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Ade Lovett wrote: :-> That's not what fetch says: :-> :-> anaconda 8% fetch http://pobox.com/~cdb/cdb-0.55.tar.gz :-> fetch: cdb-0.55.tar.gz: resource has moved temporarily to `http://members.xoom.com/zero_carioca//cdb-0.55.tar.gz' :-> fetch: cdb-0.55.tar.gz: resource has moved temporarily to `http://fourohfour.xoom.com/Members404Error.xihtml' :-> Receiving cdb-0.55.tar.gz: 21 Kbytes :-> 22074 bytes transferred in 2.5 seconds (8.79 Kbytes/s) :-> :-> > The pobox.com URL returns a 302 (Moved Temporarily). A 301 response :-> > would be given if that URL is out of date - check the HTTP spec for :-> > details. That's the service pobox provides - it redirects URLs (and email) so you can use a fixed address (the pobox.com one) as you move to different ISPs. :-> So for now, I believe the correct patch to be to change both references :-> to this site. At least, they need to be made consistent. The redirect :-> from pobox.com -> uic.edu has been in there quite a while now, suggesting :-> that the 'temporary' move is somewhat less than temporary (but we'll :-> leave the semantic wars for -chat :) Note that in HTTP/1.2, "Moved Temporarily" has changed to "Found", which more correctly describes the use that pobox is making of it. Unless there's strong evidence that that pobox account is going away, I'd say they should be left that way.