[pca] patchiad.xref file moved out?

[dpecka]

no problem, thanks martin, i also did it by hand.

regards, daniel

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 13:58 +0200, Martin Paul wrote:
> 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.
> 
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Best Regards / S Pozdravem

Daniel Pecka
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SunOS Specialist, IT Administrator

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