[pca] Heads-up: New download service

[Jeff Earickson]

Paul,

I was hoping for something simple like examining the return code for
wget.  But googling on the topic of wget return codes, took me to
here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Exit-Status.html

These codes are very vague (maybe code 4 would work).  The note about
return codes for older versions convinces me that you are right.
Ugh.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Jeff Earickson wrote:
>>
>> Paul, it would be nice if pca spit up a message if a URL connection
>> times out, even if you are not running in debug mode.
>
> I agree in that it would be nice, but it won't happen. I'm leaving all the
> download stuff to wget - and I'm very glad that I don't have to care about
> that in PCA - which will timeout eventually, but I have no plans to write
> ugly code looking at wget's (debug) output to see what's going on. With all
> the redirects and all the changes in Sun's/Oracle's backend infrastructure
> in the past, this would be a nightmare.
>
> Martin.
>
>