Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloading Latest Windows Release

At 13:06 06/10/2013 -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Brian Barker wrote:
> > Could some helpful person with the right sort of account please 
> > report this as a bug at the LibreOffice site?  Meanwhile I may 
> > contact catn.com directly.
>
> Go to the LO site and place your mouse pointer over the link.  What 
> file name shows up at the bottom of the browser?  What file name 
> shows up in the download panel?  As I mentioned earlier, I 
> downloaded and installed the latest version without that 
> problem,   I used Firefox, on Windows 7, to download it from 
> www.libreoffice.org.

Thanks for this, but you haven't understood (or read?) what I wrote.

The main link, although it names the file to be downloaded, is merely 
to the donation page.  The actual download is provided by a mirror 
site, and these are very probably geographically selected, so the 
questioner and I - both in the UK - may well be using the same one, 
but you - in Canada - will very probably not.  You will not see any 
problem that exists on the UK mirror server.  In any case, the file 
name on the UK mirror server is still correct: that is not the 
problem.  Instead, what appears to be a minor configuration error on 
that server means the file format is misunderstood by browsers (yes: 
plural) and the file is consequently renamed in the download process.

The earlier case I referred to - with an earlier version on a 
Romanian mirror site - was recognised as genuine and attended to.

Oh, and I have now alerted catn.com directly.

Brian Barker


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