can't install debug rpm with yum -

Fri Jun 9 12:00:53 UTC 2006

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Ian Burrell (ianburrell at gmail.com) said: 
>> It looks like it redirects with a 302 to
>> http://fedora.redhat.com/404.html.  That is just plain wrong and
>> should be fixed.
>>
>> Maybe yum should have some logic to detect HTML error pages and abort
>> them early.
> 
> How do you detect arbitrary content?
The actual server response is like:
for the mirror.pacific.net.au:
===
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:39:32 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux)
Content-Length: 364
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=10000
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
===blah.

and for fedora.redhat.com:
===
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:35:08 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:15:37 GMT
ETag: "b7ea0-105b-44895859"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 4187
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
.<head>
..<title>Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat</title>
..<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
..<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" 
href="/css/print.css">
..<style type="text/css" media="screen">
... at import url("/css/layout.css");
===blah.

Note all the stuff in the actual header, especially:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Throwing away the header that has the correct info in it is what is 
going wrong. From what someone said urlgrabber is used in yum -> 
shouldn't urlgrabber then return fail if the server is stating html 
errors eg 404, no matter how pretty the 404 looks to a human using their 
web browser ?

DaveT.