[tex-live] ctan.binkerton.com download problem

Rainer Schöpf rainer.schoepf at proteosys.com
Wed Jan 20 17:27:31 CET 2010


On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

 > Maxwell, Adam R <adam.maxwell at pnl.gov> wrote:
 > 
 > > In TeX Live Utility, I download update-tlmgr-latest.sh for infrastructure
 > > updates.  A user just reported getting an error where TLU downloaded an HTML
 > > page instead of a shell script.  I'm not sure which mirror he used, but
 > > mirror.ctan.org just sent me to the binkerton.com mirror, which isn't
 > > allowing a direct download of update-tlmgr-latest.sh.
 > > 
 > > Opening this in a browser or downloading with curl will give some PHP
 > > wrapper around the script:
 > > 
 > > http://ctan.binkerton.com/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
 > > 
 > > It's happened before with this mirror, so I'd like to blacklist it in TLU.
 > > However, if the user's default repo is mirror.ctan.org and it hands back
 > > ctan.binkerton.com, I'm not sure what I can do.  Any ideas?
 > > 
 > > (that mirror is also giving similar behavior but 404 errors for .pl files,
 > > which I suspect could cause problems for tlmgr as well?)
 > 
 > roughly speaking, binkerton.com sounds broken "as a mirror".

Yep, it delivers different content based on the User-Agent string. Plain wget 
works OK, but "wget -U texlive" gives some html+javascript blurb (and it froze 
my Firefox as well).

I'll write to the contact address for this mirror. In the meantime, I've removed 
the site from the list for mirror.ctan.org.

 Rainer


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