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For a few days already there's something fishy with the dev downloads. Have a look at http://bits.netbeans.org/download/trunk/nightly/latest/. That's not exactly a Netbeans release, is it ? Downloading earlier versions yields a ".download" file. Apparently a zip archive. But not a Netbeans release either. Just signalling the problem ... :-) Apart from this, Netbeans is a great product I'm HUGELY appreciating !
I can not reproduce the problem. Could you, please, provide more details or steps what you did ? It is possible it got fixed - recently I did some change on the download site.
This is how I proceed 1) Open url http://netbeans.org/index.html 2) Press the big orange button "Download Free Netbeans 6.8 IDE". 3) Select the "development" link, top right of the screen. The development link points to "http://bits.netbeans.org/download/trunk/nightly/latest/" which shows the screen of the included screenshot. A file list really.
Created attachment 98752 [details] browser window
I think the file list issue is fixed. And I THINK the ".download" file is simply a case of wrong file extensions. According to the screen it should be a ".sh" file. But what comes through the wire is a ".download" file. Looking to it with a text editor though shows "#!/bin/sh" at the first line. Which is typically a shell unix script.
> Looking to it with a text editor though shows "#!/bin/sh" at the first line. > Which is typically a shell unix script. Yes, that is correct and expected to be so :) Probably .download is the resulting file that your browser/download gives (for some reason) after (or during) downloading the file.
Well... it looks you're both right and wrong. :-) Chrome gives me since a few days ".download" files. And they remain as such. While FF gives me the correct ".sh" files. I'm pretty sure I haven't changed my chrome settings though.
> Chrome gives me since a few days ".download" files. Is the download completed? Are the size and md5 the same as listed on the download pages? Does installer run if you execute the file using sh? sh <filename>.download Robert (rnovak), btw were any changes on bits.netbeans.org recently in Apache configuration area?
It seems to work fine and the MD5 checks out okay too. So it's really about a difference in how the browsers handle the downloaded stream.
Created attachment 98847 [details] Dialog Today all downloaded dev (latest and yesterday 05/11) builds for Windows are corrupted: the download is OK uncompressing also, but then I get this window
I don't know if it is our proxy server that corrupts the nightlies, because the MD5 don't match. However 6.8 for example is ok: works and MD5 is the same as on the download page. This means that our proxy can work and that my MD5 tool is fine too.
Do you download them with Google Chrome? Does Firefox (or some special download manager) gives the same result?
I download with Chrome. In the meantime I managed to successfully download the latest nightly build. I don't know what happened.
I'm closing the issue since there are no further reports of download problem. Feel free to re-open if there are any.