I'm on a brit ISP too, Virgin Media, not sure if they do something
simular, I wonder if it is fetch(1) that is doing it, when manually
downloading distfiles I use wget which shows no symptoms for downloading
mismatch files...
On 11/05/2013 14:59, N.J. Mann wrote:
In message <20130511115228.gc94...@titania.njm.me.uk>,
I now know why I get HTML files when trying to fetch these distfiles.
The common factor is that they all use HTTP rather FTP for fetching.
For HTTP fetches my ISP (British Telecom, aka BT) will display a
"helpful" 'sorry no one at home' web page when the fetch fails, and that
is what I end up with in the distfile. Thankfully, this 'nice' feature
can be disabled. Once disabled 'make fetch' does its job of trying the
next site after the failure and the proper file(s) are downloaded.
I do not know whether other ISPs do something similar, does anyone? I
wonder whether FTP sites should be listed before HTTP ones?
Cheers,
Nick.
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