[pca] failing patch downloads

[Don O'Malley]

Hi Martin,

Yip, I remember the previous conversation we had on this (and indeed the 
one that I had internally to get SunSolve to keep 
http[s]://sunsolve.sun.com/patchdiag.xref as a plain text file).

I'll have to ask around and see what I can find out.

It seems a little coincidental that this version of patchdiag has not 
been updated after moving to the new SunSolve release.

I'll get back to you when I know more.

Best,
-Don


Martin Paul wrote:
> Don,
>
>>> It seems as if no update to patchdiag.xref has been published today, 
>>> as I still get yesterday's version "Oct/19/09" instead of the 
>>> expected "Oct/20/09".
>>
>> http://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=patchdiag.xref appears to 
>> be correct:
>
> Yes, that link has the current file. It's not the link used by pca, 
> though, which looks at:
>
>   http[s]://sunsolve.sun.com/patchdiag.xref
>
> There is one big difference between these URLs - one works with HTTP 
> and HTTPS, while the "pdownload.do" link redirects to 
> getupdates2/akamai and only works with an HTTPS enabled version of wget.
>
> Back in August when patch downloads were moved to Akamai I asked 
> whether the xref file would stay on sunsolve.sun.com - which you 
> confirmed.
>
> So is it just a temporary problem that the version on the old link 
> hasn't been updated, or will the current version of the xref file only 
> be available via akamai from now on? This would force me to change to 
> URL in pca, and all users who are using pca for analysis only (ie. no 
> patch downloads) would suddenly have to make sure that they have an 
> SSL-enabled version of wget to download the xref file via pca.
>
> Martin.
>