Allow folloing 302 codes in FETCH_ARGS in bsd.port.mk
Matthew D. Fuller
fullermd at over-yonder.net
Mon Jul 19 21:51:38 UTC 2010
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 02:30:06PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Doug Barton, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I've always wondered why we have that in the defaults, perhaps
> someone who knows can answer? If it served a valid purpose in the
> past, but does not any longer, perhaps it's time to remove it?
My offhand guess (alternately, my hazy recollection from $YEARS ago;
pick whichever is more flattering ;) is that one reason has to do with
"brilliant" servers that redirect to an error page instead of giving a
404, and the user confusion that yields (when you get a downloaded
"distfile" that fails the checksum due to being a few kB of HTML
instead of a tarball). Of course, that still doesn't help the case
that the "error page" is a 200 OK and then HTML...
That said, I'm in favor of reconsidering it. I'm manually resolving
redirects in the devel/bazaar-ng/ port on updates because of it, which
is vaguely annoying.
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