On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> wrote:
> John Ralls ([email protected]) said: > > > On Apr 19, 2016, at 5:48 PM, Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Was the docs tarball pulled? It's not properly downloading from SF at > the > > > moment. > > > > > > > Somebody complained about that on IRC yesterday too. The correct URL is > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash-docs/2.6.12/gnucash-docs-2.6.12.tar.gz/download > > and the SH-256 is > 0e4a7338aee0c5ec50d46a9b5f243a08e82215f079a125d85fc95af823906d04. > > > > Where's the bad link? > > That is the bad link, at least when I try: > > [notting@nostromo: ~]$ wget > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash-docs/2.6.12/gnucash-docs-2.6.12.tar.gz/download > --2016-04-20 10:39:05-- > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash-docs/2.6.12/gnucash-docs-2.6.12.tar.gz/download > Resolving sourceforge.net (sourceforge.net)... 216.34.181.60 > Connecting to sourceforge.net (sourceforge.net)|216.34.181.60|:443... > connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found > 2016-04-20 10:39:05 ERROR 404: Not Found. > > I just tried it, and the link works for me in a web browser -- though the actual download just now came from: http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gnucash/gnucash-docs/2.6.12/gnucash-docs-2.6.12.tar.gz I think the 404 error happens because wget doesn't trigger the scripts on the SourceForge site that redirect the download to a mirror with the actual files. I don't doubt that SourceForge might block direct access to the link above. They have to serve up a screen full of advertisements, after all! ;-) _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
