Why does apple let you install the update if it's just going to fail?

I got the 3GS maybe a month ago. I had issues running updates on my old iphone (the original) and used to have to go into apple's genius bar in order to do updates. I was sort of hoping that the updates would run fine on the 3GS, but 3.1.2 failed for me.
Anyways, it gave me some error code and I followed the link to kb article TS1275: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1275
From there I discovered that port 443 wasn't open on my computer and that was probably the problem. So I opened it up and I'm trying to run the update again (although so far nothing is happening).
My question is this: why would itunes let me try to run the update at all if I didn't meet the prerequisites? Since the update is obviously going to fail if port 443 is closed, why doesn't it verify that I have the port open before it tries to update?
I'm just a little peeved that I have to drive an hour to go see the geniuses (yet again).

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