[arch-general] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:38 PM, David C.
Rankin<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 August 2009 07:25:27 pm Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 01:49:52 schrieb David C. Rankin:
>> >         I'm glad to finally know what the problem is, but it may not be
>> > helpful to Arch to have the repos killed by some configured (or
>> > misconfigured) web traffic analyzer package...
>>
>> pacman does not load any html web pages anyway; so there is no problem at
>>  all.
>>
>
> Pierre,
>
>        I know you are right, but how do you get around the http:// protocol? I look
> at the mirrorlist and I see:
>
> # United States
> Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
> Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/i686
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> <snip remaining US repos>
>
>        How does pacman get around it? Wouldn't it be subject to whatever is
> monitoring http requests on that site just like any other page or file?
>
>        Hopefully, the hang is just a temporary issue there, but probably every 3rd
> or 4th update pacman has been hanging. It hasn't done that in the 3-4 months
> I've enjoyed arch, just in the past few days. Hopefully the atavism will
> subside.

Google Analytics is javascript. pacman does not parse, understand, or
even care about javascript.