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Re: Call for testing: Diagnostics for broken downloads from NetBSD.org CDN



> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 10:24:26 +0000
> From: Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>
> 
> So if you catch a partially failed download with, e.g.,
> 
> curl -H 'Fastly-Debug: true' -D header.txt -O https://archive.NetBSD.org/...
> 
> then it would be helpful to us if you could pass on the header.txt
> file that curl produces, along with the exact length of the data that
> curl was able to retrieve -- either by email, or by a PR filed with
> gnats at https://gnats.NetBSD.org or send-pr(1).

Addendum: please do this only if you were going to download something
anyway -- one problem may be that the backend is overloaded, in which
case a horde of people testing downloads that they wouldn't have
otherwise downloaded might make the problem worse!


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