The problem arises on both my home network and my work network.
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Sam Finn
lsf...@gmail.com <mailto:lsf...@gmail.com>




> On Apr 13, 2019, at 1:28 PM, Chris Jones <jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk 
> <mailto:jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
> 
> 
> What network are you on ? Home or work ? Could something have changed with 
> that ?
> 
> On 13 Apr 2019, at 8:04 pm, Lee Finn <lsf...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:lsf...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> Thank for your note.
>> 
>> A quick question: since everything was working up until 1 Apr (I routinely 
>> update my macports every monday, and did so as recently as 25 Mar), is there 
>> anything you can advise I look to first? The only system updates that I’m 
>> aware of in that week were the 10.14.4 and xCode 10.2 updates.
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> 
>> Sam
>> 
>> —
>> Sam Finn
>> lsf...@gmail.com <mailto:lsf...@gmail.com>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 11, 2019, at 4:57 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org 
>>> <mailto:ryandes...@macports.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 10, 2019, at 10:28, Lee Finn wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> This is a more directed followup to an earlier message.  Three specific 
>>>> questions:
>>>> 
>>>> * How should I interpret the error message  ":debug:archivefetch Fetching 
>>>> archive failed: The requested URL returned error: 403 OK”, which appears 
>>>> in the logfile for the installation of gettext?
>>>>    - Further context: this error message occurs for all gettext servers on 
>>>> two different networks (one a university network, one a home network) on 
>>>> two different systems, over several days.
>>>> * Is anyone else seeing a similar or related problems? Please share 
>>>> details: it will help me decide if this is somehow a local problem 
>>>> (although it is happening on two independently maintained systems on two 
>>>> different networks), or a macports problem for which a bug report should 
>>>> be filed.
>>> 
>>> The web server appeared to return the response "403 OK". This is a 
>>> nonsensical response, since http standards tell us that "403" actually 
>>> means "Forbidden", while "200 OK" is the response you would get for a 
>>> normal successful file transfer. Since you get the same nonsensical 
>>> response from many servers managed by different organizations, it's logical 
>>> to conclude that the response is not actually coming from those servers but 
>>> from something intercepting the traffic between you and the servers -- such 
>>> as a badly-configured proxy managed by your network administrator, or 
>>> perhaps badly-written antivirus software installed on your computers which 
>>> is hooking itself into your network stream in an effort to protect you from 
>>> malicious content, or it could even be malware trying to modify your 
>>> network traffic for some nefarious purpose. Usually a workaround for 
>>> circumventing network interference is to use https, since man-in-the-middle 
>>> content modification is not possible with an encrypted data stream, but 
>>> your error messages in your previous message showed that even https traffic 
>>> was being modified; in the https cases, though, the modifications were 
>>> being detected as a bad ssl stream. The problem is unique to your computers 
>>> and/or your networks and you'll have to figure out what is modifying your 
>>> network traffic and how to stop it; there's nothing we can change in 
>>> MacPorts to fix this.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> * “sudo port diagnose” reports "Error: currently installed version of 
>>>> Xcode, 10.2, is not supported by MacPorts.  For your currently installed 
>>>> system, only the following versions of Xcode are supported:  10.1 10.0”. 
>>>> Trac #58260 suggests that this is a build problem; i.e., that it occurs 
>>>> after a successful fetch step. Is this understanding correct?
>>>> 
>>>> Other information:
>>>> MacPorts 2.5.4
>>>> Mac OS 10.4.4
>>>> xCode 10.2
>>>> H/W: iMac Pro, MacBook Pro.
>>> 
>>> Xcode 10.2 was released recently and we had not yet added it to the list of 
>>> approved Xcode versions. Josh has since added it. It's usually fine to use 
>>> new Xcode versions. As you found in #58260, sometimes new versions of Xcode 
>>> cause build failures in some ports. As with any bug, these need to be 
>>> identified and addressed on a case by case basis.
>>> 
>> 

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