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Date:      Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:50:41 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD ports: 1 unfetchable distfile: www/mod_auth_mysql41_ap2
Message-ID:  <20051022005041.GK1278@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <200510212238.j9LMctcR000735@bright.research.att.com>
References:  <200510211932.j9LJWvgM079280@freefall.freebsd.org> <30073.163.192.21.45.1129924035.squirrel@mail.maskeproductions.com> <200510212238.j9LMctcR000735@bright.research.att.com>

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On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 03:38:55PM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote:
> The problem is that the ftp.maske.org ftp server returns an empty
> response to "LIST mod_auth_mysql41_ap2_1.00.tar.gz".  To save
> bandwidth, the distfile checker doesn't actually download any files;
> it just tries the equivalent of an "ls" command on each file
> (or an HTTP "HEAD" for http: or https: URLs).
> 
> If this is a policy of ftp.maske.org, I can create a "blacklist"
> of sites for which I know this algorithm doesn't work.

ftp://cr.yp.to might have the same problem.

Edwin

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