From: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de> By setting the HTTP header 'Cache-Control: no-cache' when returning with the status code 404 (not found) the server can indicate that this is a soft failure. No error message is shown, and server's error count is not increased. This can be used by servers that are not expected to be complete, for example when serving a local cache [0]. In nginx this can be achived by adding a single directive in location block: add_header Cache-Control "no-cache"; Also this is a perfect match for pacredir [1]. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Network_shared_pacma... [1] https://git.eworm.de/cgit/pacredir/about/ Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de> --- lib/libalpm/dload.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/libalpm/dload.c b/lib/libalpm/dload.c index 4fa17b35..23034584 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/dload.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/dload.c @@ -274,8 +274,10 @@ static size_t dload_parseheader_cb(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *u { size_t realsize = size * nmemb; const char *fptr, *endptr = NULL; + const char * const cc_header = "Cache-Control:"; const char * const cd_header = "Content-Disposition:"; const char * const fn_key = "filename="; + const char * const nc_key = "no-cache"; struct dload_payload *payload = (struct dload_payload *)user; long respcode; @@ -302,6 +304,15 @@ static size_t dload_parseheader_cb(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *u } } + /* By setting the HTTP header 'Cache-Control: no-cache' the server can indicate + that this is a soft failure which should not be cached. No error message is + shown, and server's error count is not increased. */ + if(_alpm_raw_ncmp(cc_header, ptr, strlen(cc_header)) == 0) { + if(strstr(ptr, nc_key)) { + payload->errors_ok = 1; + } + } + curl_easy_getinfo(payload->curl, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &respcode); if(payload->respcode != respcode) { payload->respcode = respcode; -- 2.37.3