GNU bug report logs - #63794
Bad error reporting in case of 404 during downloading

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From: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 63794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63794: Bad error reporting in case of 404 during downloading
Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 14:13:42 +0100

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Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> writes:

> Problems:
>   * The server not having a file is not an exceptional situation;
>     it should just skip this server or just report that there
>     is no available location for this resource instead of
>     a backtrace.
>
>   * It claims ‘corrupt input while restoring ...’, but it isn't
>     corrupt -- non-existence is not a form of corruption.
>
>   * ‘1.46Gi’ should be ‘1.46GiB’ or ‘1.46GiB/s’ -- Gi is just a prefix,
>     it's missing a unit.

I think the key bits here might be a duplicate of #63634

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