Re: [Info-mtools] GNU mtools 4.0.18 released

[Ignatios Souvatzis]

Hi Alain,

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:29:38PM +0100, Alain Knaff wrote:
> On 2013-01-11 21:08, address@hidden wrote:
> > 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?

well, the pkgsrc uber-Makefile for sysutils/mtools. It's there,
however, because it is in http://www.mtools.linux.lu/downloads.html,
or was there yesterday when I re-checked with Firefox. I wonder if
it was cached on my side; can't see any obvious HTML syntax problem
when looking at it with 'links' (don't have any graphic workstation
powered up right now).

[8 hours later after returning from a below-zero barbecue*]

Maybe I did not look closely and it only was that way on an earlier
release...

Oh, I see now that you moved the mtools home page to gnu.org? So
my browsers or my DNS resolver might have had an old version
cached...

> >>>> 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...

Uh, that's the NetBSD ftp program, which can do http downloads and even
redirections.

Anyway - consider the problem solved.

Regards,
        -is

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