[R] make check failure, internet.Rout.fail, Error in strsplit

[Paul Lynch]

I just happen to also have a MacOS 10.4 machine, but when I tried from
there, I still got "Content-length".  Anyway, I am fairly certain that
headers received from web servers would not be modified by the
receiving machine or anything in-between.  I suspect that the machine
at www.stats.ox.ac.uk, even though we see it as the same IP, must be
doing some sort of load balancing, probably on the basis of our IP
addresses, and sending our requests to different servers.

If this is correct, then it would seem that the test code for this
part of the "make test" should be modified to do the grep in a
case-insensitive way, or at the very least to support
"Content-length."  I guess the next thing to do would be to submit a
bug report.

Thanks a lot for helping me look into this problem,
       --Paul

On 2/13/07, Charilaos Skiadas <skiadas at hanover.edu> wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Paul Lynch wrote:
>
> > Thanks for giving it a try.  It is very odd that you got
> > "Content-Length" when I am getting "Content-length".  I just tried
> > curl (I had been using telnet to port 80) and I got the same (error
> > causing) "length" result:
> >
> > Perhaps we are hitting different web servers?  I ran nslookup on
> > www.stats.ox.ac.uk, and it appears to be an alias for
> > web2.stats.ox.ac.uk.  Is that the machine you are getting?
>
> I get:
> Server:         192.200.129.190
> Address:        192.200.129.190#53
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> www.stats.ox.ac.uk      canonical name = web2.stats.ox.ac.uk.
> Name:   web2.stats.ox.ac.uk
> Address: 163.1.210.2
>
> > What
> > happens if you run curl against web2, i.e.:
>
> >   curl --head http://web2.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/datasets/csb/ch11b.dat
> >
> > ?
> > (I get "Content-length").
>
> I get Content-Length.
>
> I'm on MacOSX 10.4.8, don't know if that makes any difference.
>
> > Thanks,
> >     --Paul
>
> Haris
>
>
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