[pca] EXTERNAL:Re: 401 Unauthorized

[Nishimura, Scott L (IT Solutions)]

Martin,

  This might be a clue:  when I was having initial problems with my MOS credentials, I ran both PCA [the experimental version] and wget tests [both failed].  I spent a lot of time with my proxy guy trying to figure out if the problem was proxy-related.  

Finally, I got it to work using "--sshost=getupdates.oracle.com" with PCA but I was never able to get it to work with wget [1.12].  I thought that didn't make any sense:  how can it work with PCA, which calls wget, but not with wget itself?  Maybe this is related to what you're thinking?


Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 9:42 AM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: EXTERNAL:Re: [pca] 401 Unauthorized

Pierre-Yves.Thillier at infineon.com schrieb:
> Whaoh............your suspicion was impressive...
> With /usr/sfw/bin/wget it works ! and the same download with pca if I set the wget variable to use /usr/sfw/bin/wget

Ok, thanks for the confirmation. It'd be nice to hear from others with 
proxy servers whether they have similar problems.

> Now I have to figure out why this is ok with sfw and not ok with csw ...

If I'm right it's a problem which I had with Sun's server in the past, 
and which was supposed to be fixed on Oracle's server. Seems as if it 
shows its head again, at least in combination with a/your proxy. The 
fact that wget's behaviour changed in v1.11 and onwards plays a role, too.

I'll prepare a version of PCA for you to test tomorrow, which will 
workaround this and which should make it work with any version of wget.

Martin.