[Bug 19351] RootsMagic 4 installer hangs while downloading place database

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19351


Andrew Nguyen <arethusa26 at gmail.com> changed:

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           Keywords|                            |download, Installer




--- Comment #2 from Andrew Nguyen <arethusa26 at gmail.com>  2009-07-17 04:33:08 ---
While I don't know anything about HTTP, I'm not sure that trying to read a
message body for a HEAD request is right. From RFC 2616:

"The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a
message-body in the response. The metainformation contained in the HTTP headers
in response to a HEAD request SHOULD be identical to the information sent in
response to a GET request. This method can be used for obtaining
metainformation about the entity implied by the request without transferring
the entity-body itself. This method is often used for testing hypertext links
for validity, accessibility, and recent modification."

It seems to me that if the installer was interested in the redirect message at
that point, it would not have sent a GET request. A packet trace on Windows
seems to show the installer doing a HEAD request on the original URL, then a
HEAD request on the redirected URL. After that, the installer does a GET on the
original URL, receiving the redirect message content, and then does a
subsequent GET on the redirect URL for the actual content.

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