all your zip downloads corrupted on downloads pages only...

GravuTrad · July 11, 2006, 01:16:54 PM

Hi to all the team.

All your downloads are corrupted or finish by download error, can you look the problem please?

Thanks.

Elmacik · July 11, 2006, 09:00:22 PM

Would you try with another browser? We can download everything with no errors..

Thantos · July 11, 2006, 09:41:03 PM

Are you trying to download .tar.gz with Opera?

GravuTrad · July 12, 2006, 06:31:43 AM

No, it's the zip files only...

tar.gz works well....

only the zip don't finish or are corrupted.

GravuTrad · July 13, 2006, 02:22:21 PM

No help of the official team?

The problem is of more months now and it's really annoying....

Lots of people recense this problem too....

GravuTrad · July 15, 2006, 06:01:45 PM

Still no answer?

It's really annoying!

Col · July 15, 2006, 06:07:22 PM

I've just downloaded the smf_1-0-7_install[1][1].tar.gz file from the downloads page, and it unzipped to a .tar file, and that unzipped to all the files as it should do. It must be your end!

Rudolf · July 15, 2006, 06:10:13 PM

Quote from: GravuTrad on July 15, 2006, 06:01:45 PM
Still no answer?

It's really annoying!

You are not being helpful, and you haven't answered the question yet.
Have you tried with another browser excpet your primary one?
Have you tried from different computers?
Because the downloads are just fine, and the problem is on your side.
People told already that they can download the files just fine, I did it right now again and they are ok.
You demand an answer but don't show the smallest sign of cooperation.

Gary · July 15, 2006, 08:53:20 PM

Quote from: Rudolf on July 15, 2006, 06:10:13 PM
You demand an answer but don't show the smallest sign of cooperation.

Agreed, demanding something is never the best way to go, if you say that the tar.gz's are fine, then use those instead, it doesnt matter which file type you use, you're going to get SMF regardless.

-AwwLilMaggie

Tim · July 15, 2006, 09:12:06 PM

I'll just state that they all work for me (FF1.5.0.4)

What files are you trying to download?
What browser (version) are you using?
What software is actually downloading the files?

Yakuza · July 15, 2006, 09:30:16 PM

Just downloaded some mods and last smf version available in zip format and all seems ok (firefox here).

Remaker · July 16, 2006, 02:12:29 AM

Downloads are working for me also. No problems with IE 6

GravuTrad · July 16, 2006, 06:09:42 AM

Ok, i looked more, and the problem is only on the zip downloads on your site with opera (9).

zip downloaded elsewhere have no problems, so i'm astonished of this curious problem...

Tim · July 16, 2006, 06:12:24 AM

You're right, we'll investigate the issue.

Thanks for reporting this, but for future reference: please give us as much details as possible. That helps us to find and fix issues a lot quicker.

GravuTrad · July 16, 2006, 01:53:20 PM

Yes, you're right, that's my fault.

I promise to do more attention...

I will follow this post to see if you'll find the source of the pb...(maybe opera himself? or options used by it?)

GravuTrad · July 24, 2006, 04:19:18 PM

Hello.

Some news about this?

GravuTrad · July 24, 2006, 04:39:27 PM

Strange:

this have worked: http://themes.simplemachines.org/index.php?action=download;lemma=53;id=262

and this no: http://themes.simplemachines.org/index.php?action=download;lemma=34;id=498

this yes: http://themes.simplemachines.org/index.php?action=download;lemma=90;id=414

and this no: http://themes.simplemachines.org/index.php?action=download;lemma=3;id=20

Really strange...

Trekkie101 · July 24, 2006, 05:49:41 PM

What operating system?

Also what archive program are you using?

All of the above work for me, can you download it to a place you havent ever before, a music folder or something, but download it using IE or Firefox if thats not too much hassle

GravuTrad · July 24, 2006, 06:05:02 PM

Windows XP and Winrar 3.51...

Try it with opera...the problem to solve for me is only with opera like tim seems to say...(but some friends got too with ie and firefox, not me, but them yes...)

So that's why it's very strange...

Trekkie101 · July 24, 2006, 06:22:55 PM

Ah, sorry only skim read.

GravuTrad · August 01, 2006, 12:37:24 PM

Hello.

Some news about it?

Tim · August 01, 2006, 12:59:39 PM

Still investigating

Remaker · August 01, 2006, 05:40:23 PM

Strange?

I've just downloaded a copy of smf 1.1rc2 in zip format and when I enter the zip archive and a new file is inside smf_1-1-rc2_install without any extension, I renamed to .gz and it worked, but maybe you would like to know, maybe some folks don't figure that out.

dschwab9 · August 01, 2006, 05:41:51 PM

So you're saying there was a .gz inside a .zip? And the actual contents were inside the .gz?

Remaker · August 01, 2006, 05:54:24 PM

Quote from: dschwab9 on August 01, 2006, 05:41:51 PM
So you're saying there was a .gz inside a .zip? And the actual contents were inside the .gz?

Yes. And I've also downloaded that file twice , so I can be sure of that.

Harro · August 01, 2006, 06:10:46 PM

Just tried the ones that didn't work for you.
They do work for me.
Am also using Opera 9 and winrar 3.50

Remaker · August 01, 2006, 06:26:41 PM

I've tried again download the files with opera 9, latest version of FireFox and IE 6 and strange things happen...

Opera 9 - downloads but gives error at finish, but still saves file and extracting contents of zip file works, with the same problem I've encountered before on IE 6. (a new .gz file without extension inside).

IE 6 - same thing, but no error.

FireFox - downloads ok, and strangely when I extract the contents of the archive it's ok, no more .gz file. ?

P.S.: I even tried a new archive extractor, not that this matters but for testing.

GravuTrad · August 02, 2006, 12:28:25 PM

Question to Remaker, what is your firewall please? (maybe problems between server and firewalls?)

Really lots of users i known experiment this problem...

They test with ie, firefox and opera, and with activation and desactivation of firewalls...
Certains are ok with ie and firewall desactivated only, and not other..

Really strange all this....
IP problem maybe?

I don't know for now...

Remaker · August 02, 2006, 12:43:42 PM

Quote from: Gravitron on August 02, 2006, 12:28:25 PM
Question to Remaker, what is your firewall please? (maybe problems between server and firewalls?)

I don't think this comes from the client side(my side). It's something from the server, obviously.
If something on my side was wrong than , wouldn't that cause problems on all downloads? Not just this one.. . and also, this is quite strange, it's like a coding mistake or something because it's quite illogical what's happening.

GravuTrad · August 02, 2006, 01:08:27 PM

I don't know...

It's a really strange thing cause sometimes the download work!

I tested lots of times and somes times download is ok...

So bandwith quality problem? dslam? strange all this...

Tim · August 02, 2006, 02:00:36 PM

No, it's only Opera that's affected for some reason

GravuTrad · August 02, 2006, 02:34:11 PM

Users of smf forums reported me too the problem sometimes with IE and firefox.

It's really too random...

ftvguy · August 05, 2006, 04:12:44 PM

i ahev downloaded SMF 1.1 RC2 a couple of times from this website and it worked fine but today i needed another copy but after two times i get the same error when i unzip it on my machine.
here is the link from where i am downloading the package SMF 1.1 RC2 exactly.

Alynn · August 11, 2006, 03:30:09 AM

I am also experiencing the problem downloading the 1.07 forum .zip file, each time it says that the archive is corrupted.

Browsers Tried: MSN 9.0, Yahoo Browser (both use IE 6 core) and IE 6 directly.
OS Windows XP Home, using default XP zip extractor.

The same happens for SMF 1.1RC2 zip downloads.

Both happens regardless of where I save it.

I hope this helps in locking down the problem.

atinsley · August 11, 2006, 07:30:42 PM

I am also having the same problems with the downloads.

Downloading the .zip files
Two different machines, different networks
Both running WinXP Pro and IE6

Used WinZip, WinRar and the one built into XP

The problems are all the same, archive files are corrupt.

青山素子 · August 12, 2006, 12:49:20 AM

Okay, I ran a test getting "smf_1-0-7_install.zip"from the site.

Wget 1.10.1: OK
cURL 7.15.4: OK
FireFox 1.5.0.6:OK
Opera 9.00: OK
Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 (Windows XP Pro): BAD

The IE downoad stops short of full size by 118,057 bytes.

Looking at the raw file, the IE download has some garbage (11 bytes) at the beginning before the magic (PK) sequence and it cuts off short before the end.

For others experiencing this issue, lets see if we can narrow down some stuff. Here are the md5sums for both the good and bad version of this file. If you get a bad version, see if your md5sum matches mine. If it does, at least there is some consistency that can be looked into:

Good copy (1152649 bytes):
e2bac43ca536169d027a08143d57e3f7 *smf_1-0-7_install-ff.zip

Bad copy (1034592 bytes):
b280236bc61c81d8f917731f0fca568f *smf_1-0-7_install-ie.zip

Grudge · August 12, 2006, 04:22:56 AM

I believe I fixed this today - sorry for the delay.

Alynn · August 12, 2006, 06:50:09 AM

Thanks Grudge, it works for me now

青山素子 · August 12, 2006, 12:36:51 PM

Quote from: Grudge on August 12, 2006, 04:22:56 AM
I believe I fixed this today - sorry for the delay.

Out of curiosity, what was going on? Might help those of us that run into the same problem on our own sites.

Grudge · August 13, 2006, 12:36:12 PM

Well - at first I thought it was gz-compress so disabled that and it fixed the zips - then that seemed to break the tar.gz for some unknown reason. What I actually ended up doing was removing the code which sent zip files as application/zip and instead just send it as a octlet stream like the rest.

SOcRatEs120 · August 13, 2006, 04:40:16 PM

Just a thought and suggestion.
What about using the self extracting rar file or just a rar wrapper?
Zip's are known to have cross platform trouble, MS based host servers are #1 offenders.

Many times it's the ISP's or local user's anitiviri.
Is SMF's Webhost using Zend? If so Readers' Comments
Even some firewalls can cause problems.

I've also noticed RedHat's Fedora uses a torrent system (which takes a big load off their servers)
that allows multiple crc checks from each seeder. Even here they wrap zip files in a rar to
avoid corruptions. This seems to be the future of Linux based file transfers.

edit: I've had no problem- Xp pro FF Ie and used ssh putty.exe to D/L as well.

青山素子 · August 13, 2006, 05:19:02 PM

I believe RAR is restricted in source (decoder source is free, but you are not allowed to use it to make an encoder) and the unrar tool for Linux only works on v2 files or below.

GravuTrad · August 18, 2006, 08:43:36 AM

Thanks grudge, i will test it and say to our french users to test to...

Dannii · August 18, 2006, 08:49:09 AM

rar is a nasty format, especially when other FOSS formats are availiable. But in anycase, a self-extracting file would cause far more troubles as we'd need to make one for every OS.

GravuTrad · August 18, 2006, 08:51:09 AM

Ok, i tested personnally, and all is correct for the result.

Only one thing: why the download is marked "length and time" unknown?

GravuTrad · August 19, 2006, 08:23:08 AM

maybe your workaround is the cause of this...

Just a little up, you haven't corrected all the packages correct? (some mods still have this error...)

G6™ · August 19, 2006, 10:10:05 AM

GravuTrad
Clear all your cookies and Cashed files in your browser and try again and see if it helps

GravuTrad · August 19, 2006, 10:32:34 AM

already done.

I believe just not all packages have been modified....

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