Corrupt/Incomplete downloads of archived Tomcat versions?

Asked by robmandu (21331

) February 11th, 2009

Trying to download archived, older versions of Tomcat (5.0.18, 5.0.28, etc.) And they’re coming down bad.

How bad? Well, the UNIX version ends up coming down as jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28.tar.gz.tar (note that extra .tar on the end).

I can fix the extension and then extract the contents, but some pieces end up missing.

Not surprising since the ftp host estimates the file size at 10MB but the downloaded file is only about 5MB on my disk.

I even tried the ”.zip” flavor with slightly different, but fundamentally the same result.

Current Tomcat versions (from apache.org or from a mirror) come down a-ok in all respects. And they work fine, too.

So, I don’t think the problem is my PC, or network, or anything.

But perhaps I’m missing some extra step that’s required to pull an archived version of older tomcat off the server? Do you know what it is?

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Gah!

No help, eh?

How ‘bout this…

- attempt to download this
– it should be ~10MB in size… is it?
– the filename should end with ”.tar.gz”... does it?
– you should be able to unzip it without error using any number of free utilities… can you?

I’ve tried using Chrome, IE, Firefox, and even Lynx (command-line) browsers. No dice – file too small. I’ve tried using ALzip and WinZip on the PC. Still no dice – end up with decompression errors. (Can’t use the default tar utilities on Mac or Solaris as the Apache folks have implemented a gnu-specific utility).

I’m left with only one conclusion… that the apache fileserver is truncating/corrupting the download.

If I needed only the last release, I could go to a mirror. But the mirrors don’t host older archived version.

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