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

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Nor does it ever even hit the URL you are referring to. It goes after
files only, not directories (which are probably index listings).

-Dan