[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Ralf Hildebrandt writes:
>> > and this causes the attached output. Another, subsequent call causes
>> > the SAME output. Why does it fetch files it has already mirrored??
>
>> Since both size and md5sum of e.g. buffy_0.11.2-1.diff.gz match when I
>> wget it manualy I suspect your filesystem could be corrupted.
>
> I have seen this problem before on our corporate network due to bad
> http proxy configurations. I can wget a file and get the same
> corrupted file repeatedly when coming through the proxy. But getting
> the same file from an unrelated network receives the correct file.
> Getting IT to reboot the http proxy temporarily fixed the problem
> here. But the problem here reoccurs due to some bug in the local http
> proxy. I had no solution here other than to use a different protocol.
> I needed to switch to socksified rsync as the only way for me to avoid
> our bad corporate http proxies.
>
> Are you operating behind a proxy? Possibly a transparent one through
> a transparent router configuration?
>
> Just a possibility since I have seen almost exactly that behavior
> myself due to our misconfigured proxies. Perhaps something similar is
> happening here. Don't know.
>
> Bob
That reminds me that I wanted to add a no-cache option for the http
mode to get around buggy proxies.
MfG
Goswin
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