preupgrade f7-> f9 error

[Bill Crawford]

2008/5/27 Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>:
> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 22:56 +1000, David Timms wrote:
...
>> If the URL is typed into your web browser, what do you get ?
>>
>> what about wget the url ?

> That would be easy enough to try for yourself, since they provided a
> URI.  I tried it, it worked.  Perhaps the server had a problem for a
> while, when the original poster tried to use it.

He's asking David to try it; it's nothing to do with laziness. Perhaps
he already tried it and wanted to see if it gave different results
(such as, a proxy error or authentication request).

> The other thing that springs to mind was whether the original poster was
> accessing the site through a proxy that required authentication.

That might be what he was trying to discover :o)