[MacPorts] #20679: PHP5-5.3.0 Checksum issue

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#20679: PHP5-5.3.0 Checksum issue
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 Reporter:  davids@…            |       Owner:  ryandesign@…           
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  assigned               
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:                         
Component:  ports               |     Version:  1.7.1                  
 Keywords:  checksum            |        Port:  php5                   
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Changes (by ryandesign@…):

  * status:  new => assigned


Comment:

 Also, there was #20672.

 Which hostname did not resolve for you? If there is another dead server,
 we need to remove it from the list.

 Enabling MacPorts to automatically detect this situation could possibly be
 done by checking if the downloaded file is HTML (or XHTML) and/or was
 served with the text/html (or application/xml or similar) content type.
 The problem is that this would have to be done in the fetch phase, before
 the checksum has been checked. That means you'd be preventing a port from
 legitimately downloading an HTML file, should such a situation be
 necessary. (I don't know if we have any such ports now.)

 IMHO DNS providers that resolve nonexistent hostnames to a valid IP are
 broken and users should complain to their DNS providers about such broken
 behavior.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20679#comment:4>
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