[pca] Problem downloading patches with local proxy

[Pierre-Yves.Thillier at infineon.com]

Hi,

I think that this is really a problem on the Sun side because I belong to the same company than Richard and use the same company's internet proxy to get access to sunsolve and I don't have any issue to download patchs....

Cheers,
Pierre-Yves

-----Original Message-----
From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Georg Schwarz
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 1:01 PM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] Problem downloading patches with local proxy

Hi Martin,

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:46, Martin Paul<martin at par.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> To be precise - the actual download will always be from the akamai server.
> As far as I understand it:
>
> - pca/wget asks sunsolve which redirects the query to getupdates2
> - getupdates2 verifies the SOA data and the entitlement and redirects 
> to
>  akamai if the user is allowed to get the patch.
> - the patch zip file itself is downloaded from akamai.
>
> The problem as seen in Richard's logfile is that getupdates2 denies 
> the request at first, but when it's asked often enough, it gives its 
> acknowledgement and makes the redirect to akamai. That's something 
> that must be fixed on Sun's side; actually, I was afraid that 
> splitting the sunsolve service onto three servers would end up in 
> exactly this kind of problems which are hard to track down.
>
> Martin.
>
Jup, that's exactly how it is. getupdates2 seems to deny requests most of the time. Let's say it's only every 4th or 5th attempt that gets through to akamai.
I was wondering if it could be a problem related to the fact, that Richard's and my pca-proxy connects through the company's internet proxy to sunsolve.... :-/

Cheers
Georg

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