Firewalls which filter file content & updater issues

[sjstreeting]

We had this raised by one of our users here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-1272

Occasionally our IT department decides to download new rulesets so our Barracuda firewall, and it then blocks access to Atlassian servers (as it classes them as download servers).
If the Sourtree client tries to check for updates whilst the update URL is blocked, the windowsupdates.aiu that gets downloaded is the barracudda blocked HTML page source.

From this point on, regardless of if we get the block removed, the update check fails. We have to delete the file to get the updater to recover itself.
This is easily reproducible. Shutdown Sourcetree, Put some scrambled text in windowsupdates.aiu and then try checking for updates.

The updater should be able to recover a invalid windowsupdates.aiu file.

Is there a way that the updater can validate the content of the downloaded update file and discard one that looks like an incorrect format rather than storing it?

[Bogdan]

Hi,

We've started investigate this and a fix will be made available ASAP. Not sure if it will be included in our next version as this is almost ready for release, but if the fix is not too big than we will make an effort to include it in version 10.8 too.

Regards,
Bogdan

[Daniel]

Hello,

This was fixed in version 10.8 of Advanced Installer released on December 10, 2013.

All the best,
Daniel

[sjstreeting]

Thank you!

[Daniel]

You're welcome.

All the best,
Daniel