[Open-scap] RHSA OVAL - HTTP server - HEAD request unavailable

[Vincent Danen]

On 10/02/2015, at 2:19 AM, Zbynek Moravec wrote:

Hi, Zbynek.  Brent has engaged with the Portal team regarding this 
yesterday.  I believe it is an Akamai caching issue, but am not sure 
(I've not been talking with them; Brent would know better than I).

Brent, can you respond to this and maybe give us a status update?  
Thanks.

> Hi,
>
> we use some sort of caching in our oscap-docker.
> We use HTTP HEAD request to get "last-modified" attribute of remote 
> file. It was working some days before,
> but currently http server returns "503 Service Unavailable".
>
> $ curl -i -X HEAD 
> http://www.redhat.com/security/data/oval/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_7.xml
> HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
>
> $ curl -i -X GET 
> http://www.redhat.com/security/data/oval/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_7.xml
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>
> It makes difficult to use make caching feature without this 
> functionality.
> Is it normal behavior?
>
> Zbynek Moravec
> OpenSCAP team



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