From bf4e9480023f0ef09e215ae163b947c420d72abd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: onefang Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 18:56:27 +1000 Subject: Explain why URL sanity. --- Report-web_TABLE.html | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Report-web_TABLE.html') diff --git a/Report-web_TABLE.html b/Report-web_TABLE.html index bad7148..b576706 100644 --- a/Report-web_TABLE.html +++ b/Report-web_TABLE.html @@ -96,7 +96,8 @@

URL sanity tests

The URL sanity test replaces "/" in URLS with "///", to see if the mirror can cope with that.   This might happen due to a minor mis-configuration by the apt user, but decent web servers should cope with that.   - The result for a mirror that does not cope is a failed download for that user, so this is an ERROR. + The result for a mirror that does not cope is a failed download for that user, so this is an ERROR.   + We care about this coz apt has had multiple bugs in the past where they might let URLs like that slip through.

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