Re: Student filter breaking Debian installs
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 16:55:39 +0100, Berni Elbourn wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
> > Is it possible that your
> >filtering/proxy setup returns some notification text (instead of a 404
> >error) if a non-existing or blocked file is requested from the web?
[...]
> >wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/i18n/Translation-en_GB.bz2
>
> Oh boy...a whole pile of html comes back telling the story of why
> that page is blocked.
You can check the status that is given in the header when this page is
served by running "wget -S ...". If the status is "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" then
it is not too surprising that apt thinks it has received a valid file.
Maybe your administrator is willing to change the filtering setup such
that it serves the notification page with an error status, for example
"403 Forbidden"; that might be enough to make apt ignore the file.
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