Fedora-test-list archives corrupted?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:02:10 +0100, Robin wrote:

> I am having trouble downloading the raw monthly archives of fedora-test-list. For example:
> 
> [greenrd at fedora shm]$ wget --no-cache 'https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August.txt.gz'
> --2009-09-11 20:58:30--  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August.txt.gz
> Resolving www.redhat.com... 88.221.160.112
> Connecting to www.redhat.com|88.221.160.112|:443... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [application/x-gzip]
> Saving to: `2009-August.txt.gz'
> 
>     [ <=>                                                                                                                                   ] 43,213      --.-K/s   in 0.04s   
> 
> 2009-09-11 20:58:31 (946 KB/s) - `2009-August.txt.gz' saved [43213]
> 
> The resultant file only contains 1 email (uncompressed).

Looks like a server error. Try multiple times with option -c, although
that will corrupt the downloaded file (but demonstrate that a larger
file is offered). It's reproducible here.

Also with "curl -C - -O ...", which shows behaviour like wget -c ...:

$ curl -C - -O https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August.txt.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 43213    0 43213    0     0  33946      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:-- 46565
curl: (18) transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining
$ curl -C - -O https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August.txt.gz
** Resuming transfer from byte position 43213
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 2267k  100 2267k    0     0   490k      0  0:00:04  0:00:04 --:--:--  525k
$ gunzip 2009-August.txt.gz 

gzip: 2009-August.txt.gz: not in gzip format
$ file 2009-August.txt.gz 
2009-August.txt.gz: data

The first 43K is an uncompressed rawhide report (that alone is a server error
already). The second download attempt appends the compressed archive for August.