Bug 49467 – unhelpful error message for html target

Bug 49467 - unhelpful error message for html target

Summary:	unhelpful error message for html target

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2001-07-19 15:33 EDT by Andrew Nelson
Modified:	2007-03-26 23:47 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-07-19 15:33:17 EDT
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Description Andrew Nelson 2001-07-19 15:33:13 EDT

Description of Problem:
When targetting a URL via rpm -ivh, if you typo the filename, it 
returns "Unknown error". It should return an error in format of wget, 
ie "File not found." (an HTTP 404 error)


How Reproducible:
# rpm -ivh http://foo.cmo/rpms/goodstuff-1-1.i376.rpm


Steps to Reproduce:
1. See above
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Actual Results:
Less than helpful error message

Expected Results:
Only slightly less than helpful error message

Additional Information:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-12-09 13:58:10 EST

rpm has a very primitive http client, just enough to
get the job done. Use wget rather than rpm if you
wish a more powerful http client.

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