Re: [Info-mtools] GNU mtools 4.0.18 released

[Alain Knaff]

On 2013-01-11 21:08, address@hidden wrote:
> Alain,
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 09:45:45PM +0100, Alain Knaff wrote:
> 
>>>>  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.18.tar.bz2   (411K)
> 
> I've had two reports of people not being able to get that file because
> of
> 
>>>> Requesting http://www.mtools.linux.lu/mtools-4.0.18.tar.bz2

Could you maybe find out on which page (URL) people are finding this link?

>>>> ftp: Error retrieving file `403 Forbidden'
     ^^^
Weird... Looks as if ftp was redirecting them there, but normally the
ftp protocol has no provision for redirection...

>>>
>>> worked five seconds ago.
>> Doesn't work for me either.
> 
> I don't see the problem myself - but can you maybe throw a look at
> what's happening at that server, or into the logs, or ping somebody
> who could?

Doesn't help, as these people have chosen to use curl and wget, without
a Referer... So hard to tell where they were coming from...

> 
> Hm, I notice that you point to the generic gnu mirror network,
> while the homepage points to there-local copies. If we aren't
> supposed to use *that* (are we?) maybe you should change the HTML
> to point to gnu.org?
> 
> Regards,
>       -is
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Regards,

Alain