Hello,

everybody using mirror http://apache.cs.uu.nl/ in his maven build.properties 
should be aware of downloading wrong jars. There seem to be strange rewrite 
rules configured, which rewrites you a couple of times when you want to 
download certain jakarta jars, and then just downloads 
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/index.html. You end up with hard to 
solve problems because of nonsense jars just containing an html page.

For example:
http://apache.cs.uu.nl/dist/jakarta/jakarta-slide
http://apache.cs.uu.nl/dist/jakarta/jakarta-bcel
http://apache.cs.uu.nl/dist/jakarta/jakarta-bsf

I did not test further, but it seems that jakarta projects, from which the jars 
are not present in apache.cs.uu.nl, are redirected, instead of returning a 404. 
If you for example have the dependency 

<dependency>
      <id>jakarta-slide:slide-stores</id>
      <version>a-random-version-here</version>
</dependency>

and you have the mirror http://apache.cs.uu.nl/, it will downlad "the" jar 
because you are redirected. I told everybody with whom I am developing to 
directly remove this mirror.

Regards Ard

Ps: How can we inform the right people that this flaw gets fixed? If you can't 
rely on mirrors to return the right jars, we really end up in unmanageable 
situations.


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