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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Macaulay2

diversion of web service

Open DanGrayson opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

On an airplane, before paying for internet service, all web accesses are diverted to the registration page:

i5 : getWWW "http://yahoo.com/"

o5 = HTTP/1.1 302 Found
     Server: squid/3.5.2
     Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:52:08 GMT
     Content-Length: 0
     Location: http://www.unitedwifi.com/index.htm
     X-Cache: MISS from 3
     Via: 1.1 3 (squid)
     Connection: close

And here's what "wget" gets:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML>
    <html lang="en-US">
	<head>
	    <meta charset="UTF-8">
	    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=https://www.unitedwifi.com">
	    <script type="text/javascript">
		window.location.href = "https://www.unitedwifi.com/portal/l/index"
	    </script>
	    <title>Page Redirection</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	    <!-- Note: don't tell people to `click` the link, just tell them that it is a link. -->
	    If you are not redirected automatically, follow the <a href='https://www.unitedwifi.com'>link to United Wifi Portal</a>
	</body>
    </html>

This makes the package ReflexivePolytopesDB fail when it tries to fetch a file!

General lesson: getWWW may fail even if it generates no error. Check all packages that use it.

DanGrayson avatar Jul 27 '17 16:07 DanGrayson

I don't think any packages use getWWW during install anymore. Is there a way to make getWWW throw an error during install?

mahrud avatar Jul 21 '24 17:07 mahrud