[pca] SunSolve: 403 Forbidden with valid Contract

[Ben Taylor]

My problem has repeatedly been that my account gets "deactiviated",
and I have had to go through this at least 3 times in the last 4 months,
with have a valid Platinum support contract.

Pretty depressing that there are this many issues.

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:28 PM, French, David <David_French at intuit.com> wrote:
> You may also want to try adding --ssprot=http if using the latest
> versions of pca.  I discovered for my setup that using https will fail
> downloading a lot of patches, but as soon as I use --ssprot=http
> everything is much more reliable.  In fact once last weekend everything
> was failing using https, but worked perfectly when switched to http.
> And yes, https had worked before.
>
> Anyway, just a thought...
>
>        --Dave
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at
>> [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Scott Severtson
>> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:34 AM
>> To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [pca] SunSolve: 403 Forbidden with valid Contract
>>
>> We've used PCA successfully in the past with this SunSolve account.
>>
>> However, I discovered yesterday that my contract number was
>> no longer associated with the account for some reason. I've
>> added the contract back in, but given your confirmation, I'm
>> wondering if it may be an account configuration issue.
>>
>> I'll follow up with Sun for now.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --Scott
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 16:08 +0200, Martin Paul wrote:
>> > Scott Severtson wrote:
>> > > Via the SunSolve web site, I'm able to download patches
>> that require
>> > > a contract, but via PCA/wget, I'm seeing a 403: Forbidden.
>> >
>> > Is this a new problem, ie. has it worked before, or is it the first
>> > time you're using pca to download patches?
>> >
>> > If you have special characters in your password, try to put
>> it into a
>> > configuration file instead of specifying it on the command line, or
>> > quote correctly.
>> >
>> > > Is anyone else experiencing this? Is this an issue at Sun's end?
>> >
>> > I just tried, and it worked for me. Can you post the debug output
>> > anyway (remove/overwrite the "Authorization: Basic XXX" setting),
>> > maybe we can spot something.
>> >
>> > Martin.
>> >
>>
>>
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