Stephen,

Based on your feedback, I checked and saw I was running 5.1.1.  I updated
it and tried 5.1.2.  It failed in exactly the same way.

I thought it was strange gunzip worked, or didn't show any errors.  The tar
is corrupted and much smaller.  So I renamed it, it turns out that Safari
is downloading the mirror page named as a tar.gz file (the links I sent
earlier).  It seems to be a known issue:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1235116/safari-and-gzip

I am curious how it works for you.  Did you happen to change some kind of
mime-type registration?

Kindest regards.

Ron

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Stephen Coy <[email protected]> wrote:

> I very nearly wrote a response to this saying that .tar.gz links haven't
> worked for a long time.
>
> I too am a Safari user.
>
> However, I went to double check and it now works for me with Safari 5.1.2
> (new as of last week).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve C
>
>
> On 05/12/2011, at 2:01 PM, Ronald Petty wrote:
>
> > Barrie,
> >
> > After some more testing it must be my misunderstanding.  I tried the
> links
> > below in FireFox and they worked (aka. they redirected me to a page
> listing
> > mirrors.)  For some reason my Safari installation is not, but only on the
> > tar.gz links, the .zip links go to the mirror listings.
> >
> > It must be something with my Safari browser.  Sorry about the false
> alarm.
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Barrie Treloar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Ronald Petty <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Olivier,
> >>>
> >>> Sorry for the extended delay, I lost my connection for almost 24 hours.
> >>> Here are the links and they still appear to be broken.
> >>>
> >>> On this page: http://maven.apache.org/download.html
> >>>
> >>> -
> >>>
> >>
> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz
> >>> -
> >>>
> >>
> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/source/apache-maven-3.0.3-src.tar.gz
> >>> -
> >>>
> >>
> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/binaries/apache-maven-2.2.1-bin.tar.gz
> >>> -
> >>>
> >>
> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/source/apache-maven-2.2.1-src.tar.gz
> >>> -
> >>>
> >>
> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/binaries/apache-maven-2.0.11-bin.tar.gz
> >>> -
> >>>
> >>
> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/source/apache-maven-2.0.11-src.tar.gz
> >>>
> >>> Here is what I see when I download any of them:
> >>> $ gunzip apache-maven-2-1.0.11-bin.tar.gz
> >>> $ tar tvf apache-maven-2-1.0.11-bin.tar
> >>> tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format
> >>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
> >>>
> >>> Can someone else confirm the same or similar issue?
> >>
> >> Ron,
> >> Olivier asked you to paste the link that the closer.cgi page returns.
> >>
> >> For example, when I click on the links you posted above, the actual
> >> download URL becomes:
> >>
> >>
> http://apache.mirror.aussiehq.net.au//maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz
> >>
> >> Without that information its impossible to tell which mirror may be
> broken.
> >>
> >> I'm surprised that gunzip worked but tar is then giving you an error.
> >> Which version of tar are you using?
> >> Give GNU tar a go to make sure you dont have bugs in your local
> >> installed version of tar.
> >> Additionally you might want to open up apache-maven-2-1.0.11-bin.tar
> >> or .gz in vi to verify its a binary file and not a 404 html page in
> >> disguise.
> >>
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