I think the SourceForge servers are too smart for their own good. When I did an HTTP 0.9 request (no protocol specified in the GET), I got an HTML page saying the page didn't exist. When I did an HTTP 1.1 request (below) I got a 'bad request' error. When I fetched it with wget I got multiple redirects which eventually led to downloading the file.
$ telnet download.sourceforge.net 80 Trying 216.34.181.59... Connected to downloads.sourceforge.net. Escape character is '^]'. GET /corefonts/andale32.exe HTTP/1.1 HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Server: nginx Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:23:28 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 166 Connection: close <html> <head><title>400 Bad Request</title></head> <body bgcolor="white"> <center><h1>400 Bad Request</h1></center> <hr><center>nginx</center> </body> </html> Connection closed by foreign host. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371783 Title: package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 (utopic) fails to install/upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1371783/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
