Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>> On IRC there was the idea to provide “url-fetch/wget” which would be
>> less strict compared to the default Guile HTTP client.
>
> We could do that, but I would prefer fixing and/or monkey-patching the
> date header check in Guile.
>
> In this case, if the problem is date header validation, it seems that we
> could monkey-patch the ‘parse-rfc-822-date’ procedure of (web http) to
> do the right thing.

Actually, in this case it’s (again) the ETag header.

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rekado in guix: wget -S --spider http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea/archive/icedtea-3.0.0pre09.tar.gz

[...]

--2016-03-26 10:02:08--  http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/hg/icedtea/archive/icedtea-3.0.0pre09.tar.gz
Resolving icedtea.wildebeest.org (icedtea.wildebeest.org)... 80.127.118.211
Connecting to icedtea.wildebeest.org (icedtea.wildebeest.org)|80.127.118.211|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 200 Script output follows
  Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 09:02:18 GMT
  Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
  Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=icedtea-icedtea-3.0.0pre09.tar.gz
  ETag: 1458585778.0
  Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Content-Type: application/x-gzip
Length: unspecified [application/x-gzip]
Remote file exists.
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Is this something we want the Guile HTTP client to be more tolerant
about?

~~ Ricardo