[HaakonKL]

Of course not. Oracle would never do anything bad to a developer community.

To be honest though, if this have already happened TWICE do people really have any excuse for using a server that goes down a lot for something important?

Why would you NOT just download the stuff on some separate server and at most run some cronjob to keep it up to date?

Or am I just being stupid?

[zorlem]

See the link to the w3c - several times they've started delivering 503 HTTP error codes, hoping that the applications would start to break. It didn't have a big effect, either because the application didn't actually use the DTD they've retrieved for anything or because they broke in a non-obvious manner (like with the servers I'm administering). Had the outage been shorter or if I wasn't monitoring the Tomcat JVMs it could've stayed under the radar. That's one of the reasons I've made this submission.