Thanks John, I'll have to download 1.4.3 at home then. Weird that it's doing it in both Firefox and Internet Exploder -- work won't let me install Chrome :-(
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:50 PM, John Vines <[email protected]> wrote: > That is not a file, the closer.cgi is a script which will try to point to > a mirror close to user. I have yet to find a specific reason this happens, > but it's few and far between. I use firefox and do not have this issue, > FWIW. > > > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Terry P. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi John, >> I tried NOT downloading it and telling Firefox to open it using Firefox, >> but it always gives me a 7KB tar.gz file. >> >> When one hovers over the link, the URL in the status bar shows: >> >> www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/accumulo/1.4.3/accumulo-1.4.3-dist.tar.gz >> >> So it looks to me like it's linking directly to a file, no? >> >> I'll try when I get home but I really want to get my hands on the Red Hat >> / CentOS compatible init scripts that I'm hoping are in 1.4.3. >> >> >> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:38 PM, John Vines <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Those are links to the mirrors list, not files to download themselves. >>> There have been a few users who have had their browsers configured to treat >>> links that end in tar.gz to download them as a tar.gz when in realize it's >>> a link apache mirror redirector. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Terry P. <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi gang, >>>> I'm trying to download the 1.4.3 release from: >>>> >>>> http://accumulo.apache.org/downloads/ >>>> >>>> But for both the binaries and source downloads the file sizes are only >>>> 7.1KB in size and aren't valid .tar.gz files. >>>> >>>> The various firewalls and security scanners here at work can sometimes >>>> make some site links not work properly, but not usually one that looks to >>>> be this simple. >>>> >>>> Could someone -- anyone -- please try to download one of these files to >>>> see if it's just my bad luck at work, or whether the site / links actually >>>> have an issue? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Terry >>>> >>> >>> >> >
