Need help: Some port fetches consistently fail

[Sam Finn]

No 403 error this time: 

Appletree [122] Yeah? /usr/bin/curl -o /dev/null http://lil.fr.distfiles.macports.org/expat/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  549k  100  549k    0     0   521k      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  521k

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Lee Samuel Finn
lsfinn at gmail.com




On Jul 28, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de> wrote:

> 
> Signed PGP part
> On 28.07.2014 09:22 pm, Sam Finn wrote:
> > Doesn’t a 403 indicate that the server received and understood the request, but refused to act on it? In any
> event, there is no proxy and I’ve checked that my firewalls (the mac os firewall
> and intego net barrier) are down. Am I missing something?
> 
> 403 means that the server denied you accessing the file due to (mostly)
> permission problems.
> 
> However, this behavior is not reproducible outside of your environment, so there
> must be something intercepting requests. At least not reproducible by me with
> any provided mirror.
> 
> 
> > Other information that may (or may not) be helpful:
> > * I’m reaching the network through an apple AirPort Extreme, which is
> providing both NAT and DHCP services
> > * The computer I’m working on right now is set-up as the default host (i.e.,
> it has a DHCP reservation, whose IP is the default host).
> 
> What does "/usr/bin/curl -o /dev/null
> http://lil.fr.distfiles.macports.org/expat/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz" return?
> 
> Still the 403 HTTP error? If yes, it seems to be a site-specific problem.
> 
> 
> 
> Mihai
> 
> 
> 

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