Package: whohas Version: 0.22-4 Severity: normal As can be seen from this urlsnarf log (from dsniff), the Debian searches use 4 requests instead of one. The Ubuntu searches just use one request and both sites use the same software. The Ubuntu request works fine on the Debian search site too.
# urlsnarf -i wlan0 | egrep -i 'debian|ubuntu' urlsnarf: listening on wlan0 [tcp port 80 or port 8080 or port 3128] chianamo.local - - [21/Feb/2009:18:53:32 +0900] "GET http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=uralic&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all HTTP/1.1" - - "-" "libwww-perl/5.813" chianamo.local - - [21/Feb/2009:18:53:35 +0900] "GET http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=uralic&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all HTTP/1.1" - - "-" "libwww-perl/5.813" chianamo.local - - [21/Feb/2009:18:53:35 +0900] "GET http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=uralic&searchon=names&suite=testing§ion=all HTTP/1.1" - - "-" "libwww-perl/5.813" chianamo.local - - [21/Feb/2009:18:53:37 +0900] "GET http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=uralic&searchon=names&suite=unstable§ion=all HTTP/1.1" - - "-" "libwww-perl/5.813" chianamo.local - - [21/Feb/2009:18:53:41 +0900] "GET http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=uralic&searchon=names&suite=experimental§ion=all HTTP/1.1" - - "-" "libwww-perl/5.813" /me senses an Ubuntu conspiracy against Debian! ;) -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages whohas depends on: ii libwww-perl 5.813-1 WWW client/server library for Perl ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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