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

On 16 June 2017 at 14:07, Florian Höch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 10.06.2017 um 20:55 schrieb Thomas Leonard:
>> 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)!
>
> I have seen this, but it only happened once for me so wasn't sure if
> this was worth investigating. How did they manage to blow up a simple
> redirect to 15kb :-) (well, maybe some HTML body they're sending along)

It's a load of javascript in the header. Maybe some kind of monitoring
or profiling?

> So in theory as a workaround, if people can't update to the fixed
> 0install version right away, it would help if the archive exceeded 15kb.

Yes.

> Maybe I can make that happen. Can tar archives be padded with trailing
> binary zeros, or is that going to cause problems?

I think that might work.


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