Daniel Macks wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 08:00:10AM -0500, Robert T Wyatt wrote:
>> Brendan and list,
>>
>> The Fink autologs are showing a 303 error on the bzr URL:
>>
>> Retrieving 
>> `https://launchpad.net/bzr/1.7/1.7.1/+download/bzr-1.7.1.tar.gz'...
>> get1: Access failed: 303 See Other 
>> (/bzr/1.7/1.7.1/+download/bzr-1.7.1.tar.gz)
>>
>> I don't see any difference in the "See Other" uri.
>>
>> On this page: https://launchpad.net/bzr/1.7/1.7.1 it appears the link to 
>> the file does not include https protocol (only http): 
>> http://launchpad.net/bzr/1.7/1.7.1/+download/bzr-1.7.1.tar.gz
>> Trying with https and http both seem to work for me, so I guess the 
>> protocol isn't the problem in and of itself.
>>
>> I think the problem may simply be that lftp does not support https and 
>> maybe trying the http link instead will work. (I don't know for sure, 
>> but this is what I'm finding for man lftp: lftpget  is  a shell script 
>> for downloading by URL, it calls `lftp -c'. It supports the same set of 
>> protocols  as  lftp  does,  including  ftp, http, fish, sftp. --I'm not 
>> seeing https in the list.)
> 
> We always have that problem with the launchpad.net downloads. I can't
> remember whether it was strictly due to https or whether there were
> several layers of redirects that confused things also. I think we can
> manually upload these files onto the master-mirror
> (RangerRick?). Would be good if someone could talk to the launchpad
> folks and get them to supply a download URL that works for bare-bones
> clients.
> 
> dan
> 

This was the URL I was ultimately redirected to when I downloaded with 
my browswer: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18126011/bzr-1.7.1.tar.gz

Don't know if lftpget would be happy with that....

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