Randomly we see failures in our update checks like that one: http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/couchdb/mozmill/_design/reports/_show/report/290c43ba6dc411dfb9b3005056a533eb The reason is that we do not finish the download process within the 6 minute time schedule. The reason should be slow mirrors we are downloading from. Right now we do not have any information about those in our failure report. Would be a good idea to include the download URL so we can report those issues to releng.

Robert, is there an easy way for me from the Mozmill side to check from which mirror we are downloading the update? Something like a property I can read? If not, what else would have to be done? Thanks.

it is routed to whatever server dns returned... don't know of anything that can reasonably be done about to get that info. Perhaps ask one of the necko people

Thanks Rob. I also talked with Christian Biesinger and he mentioned that there is probably only one possible solution available at the moment. We would have to use the observer for NS_HTTP_ON_EXAMINE_RESPONSE_TOPIC: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/protocol/http/public/nsIHttpProtocolHandler.idl#156 Lets see if I can get that to work. If it will not give us the correct information we will have to mark this bug as WONTFIX.

With todays build the fix for bug 597664 will give us a new attribute for the final URL we can use. That makes the implementation much easier.

This will be fixed with my work on bug 604370.

I assume by duping bug 597664 you plan to implement blacklisting on this bug? Just logging the URL will not achieve what is proposed in bug 597664. It's not enough to just log the URL, we need to do something with that URL once it is logged.

(In reply to comment #7) > I assume by duping bug 597664 you plan to implement blacklisting on this bug? You probably meant bug 597664. And no, we can't do blacklisting on our side. That's the job of releng. See my comment on that other bug.

Because not all slower mirrors will cause a timeout, I have filed bug 607800 to also track the download duration and patch size.

Move of Mozmill Test related project bugs to newly created components. You can filter out those emails by using "Mozmill-Tests-to-MozillaQA" as criteria.

Fixed as part of my patch on bug 604370. Please keep in mind that it will only work on trunk right now, because we are still waiting for backports of bug 597664.