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#186420
w3m: No warning if server returns error when downloading a file
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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>, w3m@packages.qa.debian.org:
Bug#186420; Package w3m.
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Package: w3m
Version: 0.3-2.4
Severity: normal
If I go to "w3m http://vman.de/chipcard/sid/", select the
"libchipcard_0.8.1.orig.tar.gz" file, and download it, w3m reports no
errors. However, the file doesn't contain the data I expect, instead it
contains:
>cat libchipcard_0.8.1.orig.tar.gz
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>403 Forbidden</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Forbidden</H1>
You don't have permission to access /chipcard/sid/libchipcard_0.8.1.orig.tar.gz
on this server.<P>
</BODY></HTML>
wget has no problems deciphering the error return code:
>wget http://vman.de/chipcard/sid/libchipcard_0.8.1.orig.tar.gz
--10:47:21-- http://vman.de/chipcard/sid/libchipcard_0.8.1.orig.tar.gz
=> `libchipcard_0.8.1.orig.tar.gz.1'
Resolving proxy... done.
Connecting to proxy[192.168.87.1]:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
10:47:21 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
w3m should realize that the server has returned an error and pass the
error message on to the user without blindly trying to save it to the
disk file.
If this has already been fixed in unstable, then don't worry about it.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux scrooge 2.4.19 #1 Fri Nov 8 18:44:00 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
Versions of packages w3m depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgc6 1:6.0+6.1alpha4-3 Conservative garbage collector for
ii libgpmg1 1.19.6-12 General Purpose Mouse Library [lib
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-1 compression library - runtime
Tags added: woody
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Changed Bug submitter from Brian May <bam@debian.org> to Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net>.
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