Re: [libreoffice-users] Issues downloading LibreOffice Portable

Hello,
Sorry for replying so late.  I was just searching my disposable inbox 
for "portable," not expecting to find anything, and found your e-mail.

I found that LibreOffice Portable is available on CNet's Download.com 
service 
(http://download.cnet.com/LibreOffice-Portable/3000-18483_4-75449672.html?tag=mncol;1). 
However, the version is shown as 4.1, and last updated July 29, 2013.  
The LibreOffice Portable site on PortableApps.com lets me download 
version 4.1.3, but the same problems persist.  I've cleared the browser 
cache, tried different browsers (IE, Firefox, and Chrome), and even 
tried different computers and wireless networks.  I get the same result, 
in which the browser gets the impression that the download is complete, 
and upon opening the .paf.exe file, I get "Installer integrity check 
failed." error.
I'm using Windows Vista 64-bit.
Version 4.1 (downloadable from Download.com) downloaded successfully, 
and I installed it on my flash drive successfully. Did The Document 
Foundation quit mirroring their downloads off of Download.com?
Thank you.

On 12/3/2013 7:55 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Did you manage to solve this in the end?  I think the Portable Aps
> version is only for Windows.  On Linux it's much easier to install
> LibreOffice through any of your package managers although you might
> not get the most up-to-date one.
>
> However it is odd that you were having trouble downloading with
> Firefox.  Any nonIE web-browser tend to be able to cope better with
> intermittent connections.
>
> The only way you could usually improve on that is by using the
> torrent.  You probably have a reasonably good torrenting client
> built-in to your system so just download the tiny torrent and then
> allow your client to use it or else double-click on it when it's
> downloaded.  Either way the full download should start shortly after.
>
> It might be even better to try a different mirror but i've not figured
> out how to do anything like that.  Most people know but it eludes me
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> On 28 November 2013 18:53, Name Hidden for Security Reasons
> <xmlhttprequest.open@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I was trying to download the LibreOffice 4.1.3 Portable edition from
> > LibreOffice.org, and then tried the download from PortableApps.com.
> > I've tried to download the package using different methods and browsers, and
> > the download (which is supposed to be around 113 MB, according to HTTP
> > headers) stops (at anywhere from 7.9 MB downloaded to 40.2 MB downloaded, in
> > the multiple attempts to download LibreOffice Portable).  The browser gets
> > the impression that the download is completed.  However, I get an error
> > message when opening the
> > "LibreOfficePortable_4.1.3_MultilingualNormal.paf.exe" file, saying that the
> > installer integrity check failed.
> > I know that:
> >
> >   * I am using a direct connection to the internet router.
> >   * I got the same, repeating issue every time I tried to re-download
> >     the file.
> >   * It appeared as if I were being redirected to a mirror.
> >   * Nothing is wrong with my "hosts" file
> >     (%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts).
> >   * I didn't lose my internet connection.
> >
> >
> > I've come to the conclusion that something might be wrong with the servers
> > of The Document Foundation, LibreOffice, or the mirror mirror.nexcess.net.
> > Is there anything I can do to download LibreOffice Portable without these
> > issues, or is something going on on your servers or the mirror?
> > I also noticed unusual behavior of the LibreOffice website when attempting
> > to download LibreOffice Portable, as described below in the HTTP headers:
> > Data I found questionable is marked red, while data that is unusual is
> > marked yellow, followed by a note.
> >
> > When I clicked the download button for LibreOffice, I noticed that it goes
> > to the url
> > http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/portable/4.1.3/LibreOfficePortable_4.1.3_MultilingualNormal.paf.exe.
> > However, I get redirected to a mirror url
> > (http://mirror.nexcess.net/tdf/libreoffice/portable/4.1.3/LibreOfficePortable_4.1.3_MultilingualNormal.paf.exe).
> >
> > When reviewing the headers of the requests, I found some information in the
> > headers that is questionable, as seen below.
> >
> > Request URL:
> > http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/portable/4.1.3/LibreOfficePortable_4.1.3_MultilingualNormal.paf.exe
> > Request Method: GET
> > Status Code: HTTP/1.1
> > 302 Found
> > - For some reason, I get redirected.
> > Request Headers    18:57:51.000
> >
> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101
> > Firefox/25.0
> > Referer:http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable  (Yes, I
> > also tried downloading the portable software from your website.)
> > Host: download.documentfoundation.org
> > Connection: keep-alive
> > Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
> > Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> > Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
> > Response Headers    251ms
> >
> > X-Prefix: 72.241.128.0/17
> > X-MirrorBrain-Realm: country
> > X-MirrorBrain-Mirror: nexcess.net
> > X-AS: 13490
> > Vary: Accept-Encoding
> > Server: Apache
> > Location:
> > http://mirror.nexcess.net/tdf/libreoffice/portable/4.1.3/LibreOfficePortable_4.1.3_MultilingualNormal.paf.exe
> > Link:
> > <http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/portable/4.1.3/LibreOfficePortable_4.1.3_MultilingualNormal.paf.exe.meta4>;
> > rel=describedby; type="application/metalink4+xml", ; rel=describedby;
> > type="application/x-bittorrent", ; rel=duplicate; pri=1; geo=us, ;
> > rel=duplicate; pri=2; geo=us, ; rel=duplicate; pri=3; geo=us, ;
> > rel=duplicate; pri=4; geo=us, Digest: MD5=gOtt1+3GnpMsJZLQv+JwvQ==,
> > SHA=Shu9Msjb6ftKYIuf6wDBrLspzzE=,
> > SHA-256=Y6fhl+OsxcSFp9fGzmOkST5Lc9UflDDSEfH6Z006F2A=
> > Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:57:48 GMT
> > Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
> > Content-Length: 311
> > Content-Encoding: gzip
> > Connection: close
> >
> >
> > Request URL:
> > http://mirror.nexcess.net/tdf/libreoffice/portable/4.1.3/LibreOfficePortable_4.1.3_MultilingualNormal.paf.exe
> > Request Method: GET
> > Status Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Request Headers    18:36:01.000
> >
> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101
> > Firefox/25.0
> > Referer:http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable
> > Host: mirror.nexcess.net
> > Connection: keep-alive
> > Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
> > Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> > Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
> > Response Headers    77ms
> >
> > X-Pad: avoid browser bug
> > Server: Apache
> > Last-Modified: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 03:53:47 GMT
> > Etag: "716ffc0-4ea51dcf2e8c0"
> > Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:35:58 GMT
> > Content-Type:
> > application/x-msdownload
> > - Usually, binary downloads are used with the MIME type
> > application/octet-stream.
> > Content-Length:
> > 118947776
> > - PortableApps.com says that the file is 116 MB.  In the Windows calculator,
> > 118947776 bytes / 1024 / 1024 = about 13.4 MB, which doesn't even round to
> > 114 MB.
> > Connection: close
> > Accept-Ranges: bytes
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> >
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