[pca] Heads-up: New download service

[Laurent Blume]

On 08/02/11 14:30, Don O'Malley wrote:
> There were some backend changes to the Oracle patch download service
> over the weekend.
>
> Everything went very smoothly, but you may notice that there is now an
> additional level of redirection added to patch downloads.
> Requests to getupdates.oracle.com now redirect to updates.oracle.com via
> login.oracle.com (for authentication).
>
> There is a possibility that firewall rules may need to be updated in
> certain circumstances to accommodate this change (hence the reason for
> the heads-up).

Should that be the same for everybody?
In my case, the getupdates.oracle.com links redirects directly to an 
akamai.net one, which is not allowed by our security (and being 
exceedingly generic, is not going to be easily opened).

Laurent