invalid WWW: addresses in pkg-descr

[Robin Schoonover]

On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:47:21 +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> V ne, 07. 03. 2004 v 20:42, Robin Schoonover pí¹e:
> 
> > > A lot of pkg-descr files in ports contain WWW: urls that don't point
> > > to a valid address.  After finding one such invalid WWW: url, I wrote
> > > a perl script that checks them (which I can provide if someone wants
> > > it).  I have stuck the results at
> > > http://endif.cjb.net/~end/ports-www-err.txt
> 
> > Oops, looks like I attached the file too.  >:(  It was a little  on
> > the large side, so I wasn't planning on attaching it.
> 
> Interesting, but there is a lot of false positives. For example
> www/zope-* ports..
> 

HEAD seems to be broken on that server (plone.org) and returns 404 even if
the file exists.  Grrr.  I didn't want to use GET unless I had to.

HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
Server: Zope/(unreleased version, python 2.3.3, linux2) ZServer/1.1
Plone/2.0-rc6 Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 19:59:07 GMT
Bobo-Exception-Line: 63
Content-Length: 1468
Bobo-Exception-Value: See the server error log for details
Bobo-Exception-File: NullResource.py
Accept-Ranges: none
Ms-Author-Via: DAV
ETag: 
Content-Type: text/html
Bobo-Exception-Type: NotFound
X-Cache: MISS from www.plone.org

GET works fine however. 


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