On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 12:06:14PM -0400, David Fang wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to write a .info for 'delta' (http://delta.tigris.org) > tool but encounter quirky behavior during fetch. Whether I run the curl > command manually or run fink fetch (use original source location), the > curl progress line just flashes, makes no progress for 5 sec. and fails. > Can anyone else confirm or explain this behavior or correct what I'm doing > wrong? Incidentally, "wget <url>" works just fine. > This is what I see: > > curl -f -L -O > http://delta.tigris.org/files/documents/3103/33566/delta-2006.08.03.tar.gz > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time > Current > Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed > 100 321 100 321 0 0 44 0 0:00:07 0:00:07 --:--:-- 0 > (flashing with:) > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
Instead of a simple file download, it's using cookies (for download tracking or active session control or somesuch). That .tar.gz URL actually returns a cookie and a redirect to URL in a servlet system. But curl redirect handling doesn't seem to pass cookies over a redirect. So the servlet gets no cookie, which causes it to redirect back to the original URL in order to have it set the cookie. Lather, rinse, repeat. Tell them (politely) that this is crazy and broken, and you'd be happy to use their software and help others become users of their software if they'd provide you a direct download link. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
