[Bug 5409] ie6setup fails with "The download location information is damaged"

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Wed Jun 14 11:04:10 CDT 2006


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5409


molle.bestefich at gmail.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




------- Additional Comments From molle.bestefich at gmail.com  2006-14-06 11:04 -------
I can confirm comment #6, this problem occurs on a regular Windows 2000 box too.
 See screenshots.

It's an intermittent failure, though - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.


HTTP trace from failed ie6setup:
] Connect www.microsoft.com (207.46.198.30)...
]
] GET /windows/ie/ie6sp1/download/rtw/x86/ie6sites.dat HTTP/1.1
] Accept: */*
] Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
] User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
] Host: www.microsoft.com
] Connection: Keep-Alive
]
] HTTP/1.0 200 OK
] Connection: Close
] Pragma: no-cache
] cache-control: no-cache
] Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
]
] <HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0.1;
URL=/windows/ie/ie6sp1/download/rtw/x86/ie6sites.dat">
] <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no cache">
] <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">
] </HEAD></HTML>


HTTP trace from working ie6setup:
] Connect www.microsoft.com (207.46.20.60)...
]
] GET /windows/ie/ie6sp1/download/rtw/x86/ie6sites.dat HTTP/1.1
] Accept: */*
] Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
] User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
] Host: www.microsoft.com
] Connection: Keep-Alive
]
] HTTP/1.1 200 OK
] Cache-Control: max-age=900
] Content-Length: 2788
] Content-Type: application/octet-stream
] Last-Modified: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:03:36 GMT
] Accept-Ranges: bytes
] ETag: "c481ee9f274c21:4d3"
] Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
] P3P: CP="ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo
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] X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
] Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:50:23 GMT
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/","Download
Site","EN","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/DE/","Download
Site","DE","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/FR/","Download
Site","FR","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/ES/","Download
Site","ES","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/IT/","Download
Site","IT","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/PT-BR/","Download
Site","BR","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/NL/","Download
Site","NL","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/SV/","Download
Site","SV","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/JA/","Download
Site","JA","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/KO/","Download
Site","KO","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/NO/","Download
Site","NO","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/DA/","Download
Site","DA","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/CN/","Download
Site","CN","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/TW/","Download
Site","TW","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/FI/","Download
Site","FI","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/PL/","Download
Site","PL","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/HU/","Download
Site","HU","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/AR/","Download
Site","AR","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/HE/","Download
Site","HE","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/CS/","Download
Site","CS","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/PT/","Download
Site","PT","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/RU/","Download
Site","RU","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/EL/","Download
Site","EL","North America"
]
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/TR/","Download
Site","TR","North America"


It could be that some servers return correct answers and some don't because they
run another version of the Microsoft web site.  Or maybe there are proxys in
front of the web servers that "randomly" returns the redirect page.

Anyhow, try adding "207.46.20.60 www.microsoft.com" to your /etc/hosts, and see
if the problem goes away.

If it doesn't, set up a local web server, point www.microsoft.com to 127.0.0.1
using /etc/hosts and dump the contents shown above into
<webroot>/windows/ie/ie6sp1/download/rtw/x86/ie6sites.dat.


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