[pca] patchiad.xref file moved out?

[Martin Paul]

dpecka wrote:
> i was been unable to download since todays morning patchdiag.xref file,
> so i've tried it by hand via accessing 

For a manual download of patchdiag.xref, better do that:

   - Go to http://sunsolve.sun.com/ in your browser
   - Select "Patches and Updates"
   - Click on "The patchdiag.xref File" and authenticate, when asked

This points to http://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=patchdiag.xref
which worked for me, a minute ago.

> https://a248.e.akamai.net/...

Some time ago, Sun started to distribute the patches (and 
patchdiag.xref) via the Akamai-Service. That's why you get redirected to 
  one of Akamai's servers for the actual download. That's OK, and Akamai 
itself has never been the fault of failing downloads, as far as I know. 
It's sunsolve.sun.com and the authentication service in the background 
which causes the problems, and most of the time it seems as if only 
automatic downloads (with wget/pca) via HTTPS are affected.

An hour ago, I downloaded about 50 patches manually via SunSolve, and 
this worked fine. wget/pca still hangs or fails. Sigh.

Martin.