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[dev 030506] The dev alpha AU catalog for today included this entry: <module codenamebase="org.netbeans.modules.archiver" license="standard-nbm-license.txt" downloadsize="15179" needsrestart="false" > <manifest .../> </module> Note the lack of the 'distribution' attr required by the DTD (autoupdate-catalog-2_0.dtd). AU did not handle this gracefully. I got "Exception in RequestProcessor" (attaching). In this case it might have detected the bad entry and skipped over it. Or it might have just turned on validation in the XML parser, which would have caught this error. (But see issue #31961 first - currently the catalog is quite corrupt.) It is not good to just fail randomly due to corrupt input.
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reassigne to Jirka - new owner of autoupdate
Its detect has two part: I. XML validation of generated AU catalogs - issue 31961 II. catch thrown NPE due to incorrect input - duplicate of issue 39201 Phrased from 39301: Fixed, "Downloader catches NPE and notify user". I think I could close as duplicate of issue 39201. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 31961 ***