[pacman-dev] [PATCH] download: major refactor to address lingering issues

[Xavier]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes. However, the only way to do this was to add even more flags to
> the download (and thus callback). I had a "partial_ok" flag going for
> a while in one iteration of the patch, but dumped it when I realized
> the issue could be solved by just checking headers correctly.
>

You are right, all these flags were getting messy :)

>>> 2. http://www.mail-archive.com/pacman-dev@archlinux.org/msg03536.html - Here
>>> we have a lighttpd bug to ruin the day. If we send both a Range: header and
>>> If-Modified-Since: header across the wire in a GET request, lighttpd doesn't
>>> do what we want in several cases. If the file hadn't been modified, it
>>> returns a '304 Not Modified' instead of a '206 Partial Content'. We need to
>>> do a stat (e.g. HEAD in HTTP terms) operation here, and the proceed
>>> accordingly based off the values we get back from it.
>>>
>>
>> These two issues look completely different.
>> The link you gave was about If-Modified-Since not working correctly,
>> and lighttpd not returning '304 Not Modified' because of some
>> time/timezone issues.
>> Besides, this should have been fixed in 1.4.24 which is in arch now.
>> I guess you should report your issue to lighttpd :)
>
> Yeah. the original message was the same problem actually. The poster
> of that message didn't diagnose it correctly, and it isn't the linked
> issue to lighttpd. However, the lighty issue should be solved in their
> Duke Nukem Forever 1.5 release.
>

Hmm, I am still confused here.

Which original message ?
Marc : http://www.mail-archive.com/pacman-dev@archlinux.org/msg03527.html
lighttpd issue : http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2047
Both seem to match perfectly : If-Modified-Since issue with DST ,
fixed in 1.4.24
None of them seem to talk about Range header.

Anyway, if it's fixed in 1.5 , it's better than nothing. At least that
code is available, anyone can get it from svn.