Re: [Zero-install-bugs] Bug in http://displaycal.net/0install/netifaces.xml (Maximum file size exceeded)

On 10 June 2017 at 09:12,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Error downloading 'https://sourceforge.net/projects/dispcalgui/files/3rdparty/netifaces.tar': Maximum file size exceeded
> ... downloading implementation http://displaycal.net/0install/netifaces.xml 0.0.0 (id=sha1new=81f750d61e95a8c46a06f7c8164a480da993d5e1)
>
> Information about your setup
>
> Problem with http://displaycal.net/0install/netifaces.xml
>   (while attempting to run http://displaycal.net/0install/DisplayCAL.xml)
>
> 0install version 2.8

This is a bug in 0install. It tells curl the maximum size body to
allow as the expected size of the archive. However, for a small
archive (like this one) it is possible that the redirect message is
longer than the archive, and this triggers the error.

I've made a fix here:
https://github.com/0install/0install/commit/71981239a5eec5c9153d7f105c144a03d2d8dbc4

A work-around is to retry the download, as sf.net seems to load
balance across two servers, one of which returns a much longer
redirect response than the other (345 bytes vs 15522 bytes)!


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