On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:38 PM, David C. Rankin<drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 25 August 2009 07:25:27 pm Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 01:49:52 schrieb David C. Rankin: >> > I'm glad to finally know what the problem is, but it may not be >> > helpful to Arch to have the repos killed by some configured (or >> > misconfigured) web traffic analyzer package... >> >> pacman does not load any html web pages anyway; so there is no problem at >> all. >> > > Pierre, > > I know you are right, but how do you get around the http:// protocol? I look > at the mirrorlist and I see: > > # United States > Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/i686 > Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/i686 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > <snip remaining US repos> > > How does pacman get around it? Wouldn't it be subject to whatever is > monitoring http requests on that site just like any other page or file? > > Hopefully, the hang is just a temporary issue there, but probably every 3rd > or 4th update pacman has been hanging. It hasn't done that in the 3-4 months > I've enjoyed arch, just in the past few days. Hopefully the atavism will > subside. Google Analytics is javascript. pacman does not parse, understand, or even care about javascript.
