On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:09:01 -0500 Donald Whytock <dwhyt...@apache.org> wrote:
> 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 heanet is one of the Irish Higher Education Authority servers, which offer a mirror service. They are my local mirror service for many projects and I've always found them reliable (no intrusive addons). Of course, the usual download security should be used. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
