Bug#632978: approx: /etc/cron.weekly/approx sends malformed line: error every week

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

At Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:10:47 -0400,
Eric Cooper wrote:
> 
> > Related question this raises is that whether approx should be caching
> > such content.
> 
> Approx currently spawns an external curl process to download files
> from remote repositories.  I suspect that the server's network
> connection was via some WiFi portal, and that curl returned the WiFi
> authentication page instead of the actual content, without indicating
> any error.
> 
> I'm not sure how to avoid this, but I'm planning to use a native HTTP
> client rather than curl in a future version, so perhaps I'll have more
> control over situations like this.
> 

Thanks, I do often work with Cafe Wifi environments where they show
WISP portal for every HTTP requests before logging in.

It's helpful.

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