Downloading the incorrect sourceforge URL doesn't fail

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  • Leo Famulari
  • Ludovic Courtès
  • pkill9
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pkill9 wrote on 27 Apr 2020 18:40
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
20200427174028.18a21e0e@runbox.com
running `guix download
mirror://sourceforge/Jamulus/3.4.4/jamulus-3.4.4.tar.gz` eventually
downloads a HTML page.
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pkill9 wrote on 27 Apr 2020 19:06
Re: bug#40906: Acknowledgement (Downloading the incorrect sourceforge URL doesn't fail)
(name . GNU bug Tracking System)(address . help-debbugs@gnu.org)(address . 40906@debbugs.gnu.org)
20200427180625.762d1766@runbox.com
Weird, it is opening URLs fine again...
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Leo Famulari wrote on 27 Apr 2020 20:00
Re: bug#40906: Downloading the incorrect sourceforge URL doesn't fail
(name . pkill9)(address . pkill9@runbox.com)(address . 40906@debbugs.gnu.org)
20200427180047.GB22223@jasmine.lan
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 05:40:28PM +0100, pkill9 wrote:
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> running `guix download
> mirror://sourceforge/Jamulus/3.4.4/jamulus-3.4.4.tar.gz` eventually
> downloads a HTML page.

`guix download` is just a tool for downloading things and putting them
in /gnu/store. Can you say what you expected to happen here, and how it
went wrong?
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 3 May 2020 22:25
(name . pkill9)(address . pkill9@runbox.com)(address . 40906@debbugs.gnu.org)
87lfm8wyu8.fsf@gnu.org
pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com> skribis:

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> running `guix download
> mirror://sourceforge/Jamulus/3.4.4/jamulus-3.4.4.tar.gz` eventually
> downloads a HTML page.

Could you paste the output? Most likely, some server eventually
returned 200 (instead of 404) with an HTML page as its body. Nothing we
can do here.

Ludo’.
?