you are right - must be a Firefox problem; I had no problem using wget, IE8 works as well Firefox is still redirected to https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/ though
sorry for alarm thanks for reply Michael -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Wakely [mailto:jwakely....@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 10:43 AM To: Hebenstreit, Michael Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: broken links? On 10 June 2014 17:41, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 10 June 2014 17:20, Hebenstreit, Michael wrote: >> Either something is broken on my web-access or the links on >> https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html pointing to >> ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/ are gone - can't find the >> files anywhere else :( > > The FTP site and files are still there (I've just checked with lftp on > the command-line) but clicking on the links in Firefox doesn't work > (but does work in Webkit-based browsers). Pasting the ftp:// link > directly into Firefox's location bar works. Hmm, and now clicking the links works. I wonder if someone just fixed something, or if Firefox just needed a kick.