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Re: setup 2.878 only processes one site


Jon Turney wrote:
On 17/05/2017 18:06, David Rothenberger wrote:
Jon Turney wrote:
On 17/05/17 00:14, David Rothenberger wrote:
When I use the new Direct Connection option in setup 2.878, it appears
that setup only downloads the setup.xz file from one of the three sites
I have selected.

Something which might give this impression is that setup will now
cache setup.xz, and only download it if it has changed.

I think you nailed it. I tried again this morning and the first time I
ran setup, it did contact our local site, but it did not on subsequent
runs (even to see if the file has changed). I then modified our web

This would be very bad, if true. Are you sure that we aren't contacting the server at all? (such requests might not be logged in some configurations)

Yes, I'm sure. I verified our web server logs requests with the If-Modified-Since header. Also, I used wireshark to confirm there was no request at all to our web server.

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