Comment 10 for bug 1655431

I am certain the redirect was there before.

The redirector and the mirrors are listed in the Debian package ttf-mscorefonts-installer version 3.6, and were added back in 2013 or 2014, with a comment saying "we just use SF.net's redirection, which will work in most cases. The others serve as fallbacks to retry."

I also have always seen SourceForge using these mirrors (it was already redirecting to them in 2002...), though it is possible the technical details of the redirect have changed over time.

Anyway, I understand and agree that solving the URL decoding/re-encoding issue is the most important step, and thank you for working on it. It is too bad that it might take months to land on Xenial, considering how much heat #1607535 got in the past few days (and so much duplicates!).

There is still something in this bug report (in addition to the Content-Range weirdness) that is not a duplicate. This works the first time it is run:

/usr/lib/apt/apt-helper \
  download-file \
  https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/andale32.exe \
  andale32.exe \
  SHA256:0524fe42951adc3a7eb870e32f0920313c71f170c859b5f770d82b4ee111e970

... and fails every time it is re-run, until andale32.exe is removed.

Should I file a separate issue?