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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