Well, I agree with Pier. I'm an idiot, too. I absolutely can't stand SourceForge's mirroring system (which is essentially what that page is moving us to). It tells me that I'm downloading a file, but when I try to download it by hitting the link, I get an HTML file that shows me mirrors where I can download it. Eh, no.Ok, as long as it's clear! :-) I'm very dumb, but I know other people smarter than me who also have the same problem with SourceForge... You simply "forget"! :-)
To be blunt, any link from that download page must go directly to a tarball not to a page that lists mirrors. I've offered ASF-wide suggestions to the mirroring problem. I still think the best strategy is to do round-robin DNS of dists.apache.org (and indicate that those servers aren't necessarily trusted). -- justin
