[MacPorts] #69242: virtuoso-7: fetch fails

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#69242: virtuoso-7: fetch fails
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  Reporter:  mciobanu    |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect      |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports       |    Version:
Resolution:  invalid     |   Keywords:
      Port:  virtuoso-7  |
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Changes (by ryandesign):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => invalid


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:5 mciobanu]:
 > Replying to [comment:4 ryandesign]:
 >
 > > If a file is not found on one server, MacPorts will try another
 server.
 >
 > I understand this now, but I still feel that the message is misleading.
 It's not that a DNS issue "may cause checksum mismatches", but that we may
 get some HTML error message instead of an archive with binaries or
 sources.

 It's not misleading. A misguided ISP may configure their DNS server to
 point unresolved hosts to a web server configured to return an HTML page
 with a 200 success response for all requests. MacPorts cannot distinguish
 such a success response from the success response of a server that
 actually has the file we are looking for. The HTML file from the misguided
 ISP's server will not have the checksums of the file we're looking for,
 and MacPorts will report that as a checksum mismatch.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/69242#comment:6>
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