[pca] pca: Failed (unknown file type)

[Martin Paul]

Hi,

> Reusing existing connection to sunsolve.sun.com:80.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 No headers, assuming HTTP/0.9
> Length: unspecified

Here's where things go wrong. The web server on sunsolve.sun.com 
obviously returns an unexptected reply (without any HTTP headers?).

Are there any proxies or gateways involved on your side?

Most probably, it's a bogus machine in Sun's sunsolve.sun.com web 
cluster. When you contact sunsolve, you are directed at one of the web 
servers behind the load balancer, and sometimes single machines act 
badly. The problem is that the frontend seems to cache connections, and 
in the next few hours you will always be connected to the same machine.

Let's try one more thing - please run:

   /usr/sfw/bin/wget --http-user ... --http-passwd ... 
"http://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=119254-58&method=h" -O 
119254-58.tmp

(all on one line). If you don't end up with the correct patch file in 
119254-58.tmp, please show us its contents.

Trying pca on another machine (or even from another network) might be 
another option to verify that it's actually sunsolve's fault. Otherwise, 
just wait and try again tomorrow.

> Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.  I too went through the
> '403 error' smpatch madness earlier this year, so if I can get pca
> working and replace smpatch I'll be very happy!

I can only hope that the impression you get from pca will get better 
soon (even if it's not its fault) .. :)

Martin.