From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 12:49:51 PST
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:55:32PM +0200, Daniel Padilla wrote:
> > >
> > > I also made NetHopper accept the Unna MIME type for packages, so
> you
> > > can actually download them.
> >
> > My unpatched NetHopper has been doing the second part of this since I
> > got an ethernet card for it. Was the second bit necessary for you?
> >
>
> Hi Peter (mail sent to you directly comes back as undeliverable)
>
> I couldn't from www.unna.org or any of its mirrors. UNNA sends a
> strange MIME type that Nethopper didn't understand, apart that unna is
> hosted on a virtual host. If you enter http://www.unna.org in an unpatched
> NetHopper, you get to the center for BSD abuse page.
>
> It would be interesting it you could confirm that you can download a
> package from Unna before using the patch.
Some of the mirrors work, some of them don't, but it's been the HTTP
revision that's caused the problem for me rather than the MIME type. The
functional mirrors have been sending the MIME type
application/x-newton-compatible-pkg
for .pkg files (as does my own server), which the unpatched NetHopper
recognizes and does the right thing with.
Some of the unna mirrors will allow HTTP1.0 and some won't; the ones
that do work fine with the unpatched NetHopper. The HTTP1.1 support is a
big boon, though, and well worth the effort. What made me mention it is
that if the bulk of the patch complexity was in the pkg reconigtion, it
may be that the overall patch could be simplified by either separating
the pkg loader part from the HTTP1.1 support.
Uhm, looks like guelph.unna.org is the one that I use with the NetHopper
I've got loaded, which shows as version 3.2 (443-49287560).
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