Can we drop at.cpan.org from the list of CPAN sites please? It does stupid things like this:
lucid-nonsense:~...ports/mail/p5-Email-Address-List:% fetch -v -v http://at.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Email/Nonexistent.tar.gz scheme: [http] user: [] password: [] host: [at.cpan.org] port: [0] document: [/modules/by-module/Email/Nonexistent.tar.gz] ---> at.cpan.org:80 looking up at.cpan.org connecting to at.cpan.org:80 requesting http://at.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Email/Nonexistent.tar.gz >>> GET /modules/by-module/Email/Nonexistent.tar.gz HTTP/1.1 >>> Host: at.cpan.org >>> Accept: */* >>> User-Agent: fetch libfetch/2.0 >>> Connection: close >>> <<< HTTP/1.1 302 Found <<< Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:18:25 GMT <<< Server: Apache <<< Location: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/.admin/missing/server.php?name=AT.CPAN.ORG <<< Vary: Accept-Encoding 302 redirect to http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/.admin/missing/server.php?name=AT.CPAN.ORG scheme: [http] user: [] password: [] host: [gd.tuwien.ac.at] port: [0] document: [/.admin/missing/server.php?name=AT.CPAN.ORG] <<< Content-Length: 249 <<< Connection: close content length: [249] <<< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 <<< ---> gd.tuwien.ac.at:80 looking up gd.tuwien.ac.at connecting to gd.tuwien.ac.at:80 requesting http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/.admin/missing/server.php?name=AT.CPAN.ORG >>> GET /.admin/missing/server.php?name=AT.CPAN.ORG HTTP/1.1 >>> Host: gd.tuwien.ac.at >>> Accept: */* >>> User-Agent: fetch libfetch/2.0 >>> Connection: close >>> <<< HTTP/1.1 200 OK <<< Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:18:25 GMT <<< Server: Apache <<< X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.2 <<< Vary: Accept-Encoding <<< Content-Length: 6386 <<< Connection: close content length: [6386] <<< Content-Type: text/html <<< offset 0, length -1, size -1, clength 6386 local size / mtime: 6386 / 1390853877 remote size / mtime: 6386 / 0 Nonexistent.tar.gz 100% of 6386 B 2297 kBps 00m00s lucid-nonsense:~...ports/mail/p5-Email-Address-List:% ie. ask for a non-existent file and it will return a cutesie message under the filename you asked for and a 200 OK code. Site administrators ... grrrrrr .... flogging is too good for them. Morons of the drooling persuasion. 404 exists for a reason. Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk
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