> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 01:11:48 +0100
> From: Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com>
> Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] Popt-1.16 http download corrupted file?
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:56:24PM +, Peng HG wrote:
> > Trying to extract the Popt-1.16 tarball downloaded from the http link fails
> > with the message
> >
> > gzip:stdin: not in gzip format
> > tar: Child returned status 1
> > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> >
> > The tarball from the ftp link is OK though.
>
> Probably a browser error. I think chromium did that (decompressing
> tar.gz) at one time.
IOW(?), OP, is your http-downloaded object, a tarball ?
> I've just used wget on the http link. I got
> the expected md5sum and file reported
>
> popt-1.16.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, last modified: Tue May 4
> 20:56:51 2010, max compression, from Unix
>
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