[maemo-developers] explanations of the recent download problems

[From: Ferenc Szekely]

Hello,

On Jan 16, 2008 7:18 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
>
> As a techie, I'd like to know more about how the content distribution
> network happened to cache HTML error pages for many of the packages on
> repository.maemo.org.  Did the error pages come with long cache
> expiration headers by mistake, or does the CDN tend to assume URLs
> ending in .deb never change?
>
No, there is no special expiration header set for the index page of
tablets-dev.nokia.com. It seems that the CDN never realized that the
file size has changed, although I have reverted the normal index page
for a long time. I requested the CDN admins to fix this issue.

About the debs: no, CDN should not assume that a deb never changes.
The file names are always unique for newly uploaded packages. I can't
tell you why new debs are not "picked up" by the CDN properly, if this
was also part of your question.

Thanks Marius for the questions. Please shoot more and I try to answer
as much as I know.

> Marius Gedminas
> --
> Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
>
Cheers,
ferenc