Bug 49467 - unhelpful error message for html target
Summary: unhelpful error message for html target
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jeff Johnson
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-07-19 19:33 UTC by Andrew Nelson
Modified: 2007-03-27 03:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-07-19 19:33:17 UTC
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Description Andrew Nelson 2001-07-19 19:33:13 UTC
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 18:58:10 UTC
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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