problem with https://fedoraproject.org/en/verify

[Richard Zidlicky]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:35:21PM -0500, Ricky Zhou wrote:
> On 2009-12-31 10:24:53 PM, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> > sorry to use this contact address, was not sure where else to direct 
> > this.
> No problem at all, this is the right place to report website issues like 
> this.
> 
> > The procedure in this page has one significant stumbling point - the *-CHECKSUM
> > file is a gzipped file - at least when it is downloaded using wget.
> > ( I have tested it with https://fedoraproject.org/static/checksums/Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM )
> That definitely shouldn't be a gzipped file - does the file command say 
> that it is one?  This is what the file should look like:

thats what happens here:

[rz at rz rai]$ wget -c --proxy=off https://fedoraproject.org/static/checksums/Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM
--2009-12-31 22:58:03--  https://fedoraproject.org/static/checksums/Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM
Resolving fedoraproject.org... 80.239.156.214, 152.46.7.221, 66.35.62.162, ...
Connecting to fedoraproject.org|80.239.156.214|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1078 (1.1K) [text/plain]
Saving to: “Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM”

100%[======================================>] 1,078       --.-K/s   in 0.1s    

2009-12-31 22:58:10 (8.79 KB/s) - “Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM” saved [1078/1078]


[rz at rz rai]$ file Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM 
Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM: gzip compressed data, from Unix

[rz at rz rai]$ od -c Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM |head
0000000 037 213  \b  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0 003   m 223   K 227 252   8
0000020 024   F 347 374  \n 207 335 355 252   k   H   B 036   w 255   ;
0000040  \0 304   G 251 224 210   X 352   , 344   a   !   *  \b 242   %
0000060 277 276 271 325   = 253 233   i 262 366   9 337 316   9   /   /
0000100 335 361 202 361   4 354   - 307 313   ^   < 035 207 301 260 267
0000120  \b 342 330 035  \a 277 357   ^ 254 211 250   ?   ~ 366 342 211
0000140   k   [ 226 001   B   q 310 245 202 016 347 016 325   6 001   Z
0000160   `  \f   u 312  \0   g   $   u  \f 260 225 020 306 250   T   J
0000200 252 035   a   3  \f 004   !   D   b 214 251 244 275 177   F   Z
0000220 025 225   x 261 341   K 206 030   y 031   n 206   ? 262 272 260


Richard
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