[pca] What's wrong here? is it me? Please help

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Wed Aug 10 11:17:46 CEST 2011


There are two different problems here:

Your user/password was wrong. It seems as if Oracle now uses a very obscure and 
non-standard way to tell us that. Instead of an HTTP ERROR 401 it returns a 
text/html file with 2009 bytes, which points at the problem in the HTML content 
(<p class="loginFailed">). For PCA, this looks as if the download completed 
successfully, and it later fails with "unknown file type", because it expects a 
ZIP file here. I have now added another hack to PCA to recognize (and report) 
this situation as a "Login Failed" situation.

Independent from that, there seems to be a problem with your wget. It should not 
be necessary to use "--no-check-certificate" with PCA, because it contains all 
the necessary root/intermediate certificates to verify Oracle's download 
servers. It would be helpful if you re-tried with a different version of wget 
(as Laurent said, you might have /usr/sfw/bin/wget which comes with Solaris) and 
without the "--no-check-certificate" option. If this doesn't work, please show 
me the debug output so I can take a closer look at what's wrong.

Martin.



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