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Dennis Lundberg commented on MNGSITE-157: ----------------------------------------- This is by design. The links go to the mirror system used by the ASF. What we could do it put a note on the download page telling people to not right-click the links and choose "Download link as..." > Download links not working > -------------------------- > > Key: MNGSITE-157 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-157 > Project: Maven Project Web Site > Issue Type: Bug > Environment: MacOSX 10.6, Safari 5.1.5 > Reporter: Marc Guenther > > Would it be possible to fix the download links on > http://maven.apache.org/download.html for maven .tar.gz files? > When I click on apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz, I get a file > {{apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz}} which is 6591bytes long. Uncompressing from > the Finder does not work and closer inspection reveals that this is in fact a > gzipped html file, which points you to the list of mirrors. > This has been confusing new users for years now. Does not seem too hard to > fix... -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira