[Catalog-sig] last.pypi.python.org

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 04.04.2011 21:32, schrieb Terry Reedy:
> On 4/3/2011 12:50 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>> Am 03.04.2011 18:07, schrieb Éric Araujo:
>>> Le 02/04/2011 21:07, anatoly techtonik a écrit :
>>>> http://pypi.python.org/mirrors/ refers to last.pypi.python.org to
>>>> query for a last mirror, but it leads to a broken page.
>>>
>>> This domain name is supposed to be used for CNAME resolution, not HTTP
>>> requests.
>>
>> Still, it's easy to fix to make it work for direct http requests also,
>> so I just did.
> 
> Not knowing what CNAME means, I might have naively made the same mistake
> of trying out last.pypi.python.org, which does indeed work now.

It's not a problem to be naive here: If you don't know what a CNAME
is, you weren't target audience of last.pypi.python.org. Hence it's
not a problem that you get a bogus or no page when you put that
into a browser. I promise that such breakage will happen again, and
don't plan to make fixing it a priority.

Regards,
Martin