On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>wrote:
> Donald Whytock wrote: > >> http://openoffice.org should NOT redirect to anything. Please let us >> know >> if this did happen. >> http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/ is NOT an OpenOffice address, and did >> not >> work when I tried it. >> > > To avoid confusion: when you download from the official site (i.e. when > you click the "Download" button in http://www.openoffice.org/ > download/index.html ) you are, in a sense, "redirected" to SourceForge, > since the binary file is downloaded from there. And the download will > appear to come from something.dl.sourceforge.net (in Europe I've often > see heanet.dl.sourceforge.net and several others). > > So there are no problems with this "redirection". This is what happens for > a genuine download from the official page. > > Regards, > Andrea. > Sorry for the alarm, then. I clicked on the link and got a Sourceforge page that said, "Whoops, we can't find that page." I thought the worst, that someone had managed to spoof the site to a Sourceforge project of their own. Don
