Package fails to install fonts

[Peter Van Tilborgh]

When upgrading the mssttcorefonts, the ttf-mscorefonts-installer returns an error. Output added below.
Do note the space in the second (redirected) url. When downloading the file in a browser throught the second url (redirected from the first), it does work. This happens even with multiple runs and various redirects, so it is not directly related to this single example.

peter@orion:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/29.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 361435 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4+nmu1ubuntu2_all.deb ...
mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) over (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.168.3) ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe 404 Not Found

E: Download Failed

Other urls the link redirects to were:

https://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe
https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe
https://vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe

I suspect the installer is not dealing well with the space in the url.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-59.80-generic 4.4.35
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-59-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Jan 20 08:41:13 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-12 (1103 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-11-09 (71 days ago)

[Peter Van Tilborgh (pvantilb)]

I meant not related to this specific url, not example.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Naël (nathanael-naeri)]

This is bug 1607535, fixed in package apt-transport-https 1.2.19 (released to Xenial on Jan 26) by Julian Klode in bug 1651923. Update apt-transport-https (and possibly the other apt packages, for good measure) to 1.2.19, and reinstall. Please report if it fails.

[Peter Van Tilborgh (pvantilb)]

Since the upgrade to apt-transport-https, the errors have dissapeared.
I will confirm this on my work machine tomorrow.

[Peter Van Tilborgh (pvantilb)]

This indeed fixed the issue for me on both affected machines.

[Naël (nathanael-naeri)]

Awesome, thanks for the feedback.