Re: [Website] Download of .xz archives appears to be buggy

Bryce Harrington <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.cairo
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 04:33:21PM +0100, Anthony Loiseau wrote:
> Dear Cairo team,
> 
> I am attempting a download of
> http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.10.tar.xz (~40MB) without
> success, whereas .sha1 file works fine.
> 
> So I have some questions or remarks.
> 
> 
>    - Is this a known issue?
>    - Maybe your webserver is configures to auto-decompress
>    application/x-tar mime files?
>    - Is their another download area/protocol which may work as a workaround?

I tested it out both from the web link and via wget, and it downloaded
fine for me both times.

$ wget http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.10.tar.xz
--2014-11-07 10:57:27--
http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.10.tar.xz
Resolving cairographics.org (cairographics.org)... 131.252.210.176
Connecting to cairographics.org
(cairographics.org)|131.252.210.176|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 42135592 (40M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `cairo-1.12.10.tar.xz'

100%[=============================================================================================>]

2014-11-07 10:57:58 (1.28 MB/s) - `cairo-1.12.10.tar.xz' saved
[42135592/42135592]

$ ls cairo-1.12.10.tar.xz 
cairo-1.12.10.tar.xz

Bryce

> Best regards.
> Anthony L.

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