repo XML file schemas

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Fri Mar 28 08:29:26 UTC 2014


On 03/27/2014 06:54 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:

> The Fedora XML repo file schemas seem to have disappeared.
>
> <metadata xmlns="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/common"
> xmlns:rpm="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/rpm" packages="14364">
>
> duke.edu no longer seem to host them !

These are just unique strings, you are not supposed to use these URIs to 
fetch data.  See this discussion of the similar problem with DTD URIs:

<http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic/>

If you find any software that fetches these resources by default, please 
report it.

-- 
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team


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