Re: Changes to RHN this weekend?

Grob, Stephan wrote:
> rhn.redhat.com was down most of this past weekend. Now a tool that we 
> use to download packages out of our channels is getting a 404 error. I 
> suspect the maintenance performed changed the URL this tool uses to 
> download packages. Does anyone have any specifics as to the maintenance 
> performed this weekend? The tool I’m using is commercial software which 
> is compiled so I can’t see exactly what URL it’s trying to use to 
> download the packages. I suspect that this is the URL it’s trying to 
> use: 
> https://rhn.redhat.com

NOTE - I am not on the RHN team. This weekend an update to RHN did 
indeed go out. Full details at their Release Notes:

https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/help/release-notes/hosted/rhn520/rhn-release-notes-en.jsp

Lets hope this bug really is resolved :
# BZ# 482748 — Red Hat Network (RHN) Hosted website session times out 
too quickly????

:)

In specific for you though, it seems that page url changed

https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/packages/details/Overview.do?pid=

Most likely due to re-writing the page from perl (.pxt) to Java (.do).

I would suggest to point who ever wrote the software to use standard 
API's (https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/apidoc/index.jsp) and not what I 
assume to be screen scraping. If the RHN API does not meet their needs 
you may find that Satellite's extensive API set does 
(http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.3/API_Overview/html/index.html). 


Regards,
Cliff



/network/software/packages/details.pxt?pid=<pkg
> <https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?pid=%3cpkg> 
> ID>
> 
>  
> 
> When I call just 
> https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/software/details.pxt I get a 
> page not found error. I honestly don’t know whether or not this URL 
> worked prior to this weekend. I just grabbed this by doing a ‘strings’ 
> on the binary I call to download the packages so that’s why I’m 
> suspecting this.
> 
>  
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Stephan Grob
> 
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