You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to issues@maven.apache.org by "Marc Guenther (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org> on 2012/07/09 12:08:21 UTC
[jira] (MNGSITE-157) Download links not working
Marc Guenther created MNGSITE-157:
-------------------------------------
Summary: Download links not working
Key: MNGSITE-157
URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157
Project: Maven Project Web Site
Issue Type: Bug
Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5
Reporter: Marc Guenther
Would it be possible to fix the download links on http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files?
When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors.
This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to fix...
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] (MNGSITE-157) Download links not working
Posted by "Marc Guenther (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>.
[ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=305047#comment-305047 ]
Marc Guenther commented on MNGSITE-157:
---------------------------------------
I notice that this does NOT happen for the .zip files, only for the .tar.gz files. It seems Safari looks at the URL, which ends with .gz, and as it also gets a content-Encoding of gz, it somehow decides to download the html page as a file and store it under the .tar.gz name.
Why do the URLs of the html mirror pages have to end in .tar.gz or .zip anyway? If you would just name that .html (what they are) it would be less confusing to users and to Safari.
I find a link which is named "apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz" and whose URL ends with "apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz" and which does NOT download "apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz" but instead leads to a html text page very confusing. But maybe it's just me.
> Download links not working
> --------------------------
>
> Key: MNGSITE-157
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157
> Project: Maven Project Web Site
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5
> Reporter: Marc Guenther
> Assignee: Olivier Lamy
>
> Would it be possible to fix the download links on http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files?
> When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors.
> This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to fix...
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] (MNGSITE-157) Download links not working
Posted by "Brett Porter (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>.
[ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=305115#comment-305115 ]
Brett Porter commented on MNGSITE-157:
--------------------------------------
The URLs need the filename to download in it somewhere as that's how the CGI figures out what to offer links to. Changing that to a query parameter would have quite some impact across the ASF :)
It looks like this bug has been fixed in Safari 6, so I think we can close it again now. Can anyone else confirm?
> Download links not working
> --------------------------
>
> Key: MNGSITE-157
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157
> Project: Maven Project Web Site
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5
> Reporter: Marc Guenther
> Assignee: Olivier Lamy
>
> Would it be possible to fix the download links on http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files?
> When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors.
> This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to fix...
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] (MNGSITE-157) Download links not working
Posted by "Brett Porter (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>.
[ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=305135#comment-305135 ]
Brett Porter commented on MNGSITE-157:
--------------------------------------
ant, ivy, and httpd all use a different form of the CGI that integrates into the page.
I found that the CGI accepts the path as a query parameter as well as a path. I've updated that, and it should sync over to the site within an hour.
As I can't replicate the problem on Lion (5.1.7) or Mountain Lion (6.0), I'd appreciate if you can check that [http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/maven/binaries/apache-maven-2.2.1-bin.tar.gz] does what you expect.
> Download links not working
> --------------------------
>
> Key: MNGSITE-157
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157
> Project: Maven Project Web Site
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5
> Reporter: Marc Guenther
> Assignee: Olivier Lamy
>
> Would it be possible to fix the download links on http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files?
> When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors.
> This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to fix...
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] (MNGSITE-157) Download links not working
Posted by "Marc Guenther (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>.
[ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=305131#comment-305131 ]
Marc Guenther commented on MNGSITE-157:
---------------------------------------
I just checked several other ASF projects (ant, ivy, httpd, and several others) and none of them exhibit this behavior.
Anyway, what I wrote in my last paragraph is not a bug in Safari. It is a problem with your site. I think the term for this is "broken by design".
I can only wonder on the mindset of a team, which puts up major hurdles for simply downloading their software, don't fix it for years, and even now call it a feature and leave it at that.
I hear that maven has a reputation of making easy things complicated. I wonder where that comes from...
> Download links not working
> --------------------------
>
> Key: MNGSITE-157
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157
> Project: Maven Project Web Site
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5
> Reporter: Marc Guenther
> Assignee: Olivier Lamy
>
> Would it be possible to fix the download links on http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files?
> When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors.
> This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to fix...
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] (MNGSITE-157) Download links not working
Posted by "Olivier Lamy (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>.
[ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Olivier Lamy reassigned MNGSITE-157:
------------------------------------
Assignee: Olivier Lamy
> Download links not working
> --------------------------
>
> Key: MNGSITE-157
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157
> Project: Maven Project Web Site
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5
> Reporter: Marc Guenther
> Assignee: Olivier Lamy
>
> Would it be possible to fix the download links on http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files?
> When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors.
> This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to fix...
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] (MNGSITE-157) Download links not working
Posted by "Dennis Lundberg (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>.
[ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=303101#comment-303101 ]
Dennis Lundberg commented on MNGSITE-157:
-----------------------------------------
This is by design. The links go to the mirror system used by the ASF.
What we could do it put a note on the download page telling people to not right-click the links and choose "Download link as..."
> Download links not working
> --------------------------
>
> Key: MNGSITE-157
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157
> Project: Maven Project Web Site
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5
> Reporter: Marc Guenther
>
> Would it be possible to fix the download links on http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files?
> When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors.
> This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to fix...
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] (MNGSITE-157) Download links not working
Posted by "Marc Guenther (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>.
[ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=303141#comment-303141 ]
Marc Guenther commented on MNGSITE-157:
---------------------------------------
Hi Dennis,
I wasn't talking about right-click. This happened when I simply left-clicked the link in Safari.
But it works now. Seems the browser can also read the note you put there :)
> Download links not working
> --------------------------
>
> Key: MNGSITE-157
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157
> Project: Maven Project Web Site
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5
> Reporter: Marc Guenther
> Assignee: Olivier Lamy
>
> Would it be possible to fix the download links on http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files?
> When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors.
> This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to fix...
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] (MNGSITE-157) Download links not working
Posted by "Marc Guenther (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>.
[ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Marc Guenther closed MNGSITE-157.
---------------------------------
Resolution: Fixed
And the URL is now available on the main download page.
Closing, thanks.
> Download links not working
> --------------------------
>
> Key: MNGSITE-157
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157
> Project: Maven Project Web Site
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5
> Reporter: Marc Guenther
> Assignee: Olivier Lamy
>
> Would it be possible to fix the download links on http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files?
> When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors.
> This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to fix...
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] (MNGSITE-157) Download links not working
Posted by "Marc Guenther (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>.
[ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=305137#comment-305137 ]
Marc Guenther commented on MNGSITE-157:
---------------------------------------
I'm using Safari 5.1.5 (still on Snow Leopard) and the URL you posted works fine! :-)
> Download links not working
> --------------------------
>
> Key: MNGSITE-157
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157
> Project: Maven Project Web Site
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5
> Reporter: Marc Guenther
> Assignee: Olivier Lamy
>
> Would it be possible to fix the download links on http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files?
> When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors.
> This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to fix...
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] (MNGSITE-157) Download links not working
Posted by "Marc Guenther (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>.
[ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Marc Guenther reopened MNGSITE-157:
-----------------------------------
Sorry, but the issue is not fixed. Safari still downloads a file, when I left-click on the link.
I looked at the traffic, and see that Safari sends the following:
{noformat}
GET http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/binaries/apache-maven-2.2.1-bin.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: www.apache.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.55.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.5 Safari/534.55.3
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Referer: http://maven.apache.org/download.html
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
{noformat}
I guess the {{Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate}} is the culprit.
The webserver responds with:
{noformat}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:16:30 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.1 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.0g
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: max-age=3600
Expires: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:16:30 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 6595
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Age: 386
{noformat}
followed by the gzipped html page.
I don't know why, but for some reason Safari interprets this as something it should download and not display in the window.
> Download links not working
> --------------------------
>
> Key: MNGSITE-157
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157
> Project: Maven Project Web Site
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5
> Reporter: Marc Guenther
> Assignee: Olivier Lamy
>
> Would it be possible to fix the download links on http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files?
> When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors.
> This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to fix...
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] (MNGSITE-157) Download links not working
Posted by "Marc Guenther (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>.
[ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=303449#comment-303449 ]
Marc Guenther edited comment on MNGSITE-157 at 7/12/12 8:32 AM:
----------------------------------------------------------------
Sorry, but the issue is not fixed. Safari still downloads a file, when I left-click on e.g. the {{apache-maven-2.2.1-bin.tar.gz}} link.
I looked at the traffic, and see that Safari sends the following:
{noformat}
GET http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/binaries/apache-maven-2.2.1-bin.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: www.apache.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.55.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.5 Safari/534.55.3
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Referer: http://maven.apache.org/download.html
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
{noformat}
I guess the {{Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate}} is the culprit.
The webserver responds with:
{noformat}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:16:30 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.1 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.0g
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: max-age=3600
Expires: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:16:30 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 6595
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Age: 386
{noformat}
followed by the gzipped html page.
I don't know why, but for some reason Safari interprets this as something it should download and not display in the window.
was (Author: marc.guenther):
Sorry, but the issue is not fixed. Safari still downloads a file, when I left-click on the link.
I looked at the traffic, and see that Safari sends the following:
{noformat}
GET http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/binaries/apache-maven-2.2.1-bin.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: www.apache.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.55.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.5 Safari/534.55.3
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Referer: http://maven.apache.org/download.html
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
{noformat}
I guess the {{Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate}} is the culprit.
The webserver responds with:
{noformat}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:16:30 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.1 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.0g
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: max-age=3600
Expires: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:16:30 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 6595
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Age: 386
{noformat}
followed by the gzipped html page.
I don't know why, but for some reason Safari interprets this as something it should download and not display in the window.
> Download links not working
> --------------------------
>
> Key: MNGSITE-157
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157
> Project: Maven Project Web Site
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5
> Reporter: Marc Guenther
> Assignee: Olivier Lamy
>
> Would it be possible to fix the download links on http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files?
> When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors.
> This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to fix...
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] (MNGSITE-157) Download links not working
Posted by "Olivier Lamy (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>.
[ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Olivier Lamy closed MNGSITE-157.
--------------------------------
Resolution: Fixed
> Download links not working
> --------------------------
>
> Key: MNGSITE-157
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157
> Project: Maven Project Web Site
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5
> Reporter: Marc Guenther
> Assignee: Olivier Lamy
>
> Would it be possible to fix the download links on http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files?
> When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors.
> This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to fix...
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira