On Wednesday 20 November 2002 11:39 pm, Roel Wuyts wrote:
> While I admit it was pretty stupid from me to not go and actually
> look at the file, I am wondering whether the process cannot be
> improved a little:
> (1) it is strange that the error file has exactly the same name,
> leading to this kind of problem. Maybe calling it
> starbrowser.sar-error could give a better indication
> (2) maybe it is possible to just display the error, which is also
> done when the network is unavailable.

In a 5125 image, the network behavior is causing part of the problem.

(Url absoluteFromText: 'http://localhost/xxx/yyy') retrieveContents

returns a text/plain MIMEDocument with the contents:

'error occured retrieving http://localhost/xxx/yyy: Server localhost 
is not responding'

when it should return nil (per the documentation) or raise an 
exception.

Then, further:

* SMSimpleInstaller>>download needs to detect download errors.
* download and install errors need to be displayed somewhere or at 
least be made available to the user

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