bug#55933: Fails download of quix 1.3 virtual machine

bug#55933: Fails download of quix 1.3 virtual machine

[Thomas C Kosvic]

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Clicking on the down load option from the software download page:


      GNU Guix 1.3.0 QEMU Image

QCOW2 virtual machine (VM) image.


Does not download a file, it tries to open the file in thevrowser. The 
iso file from the other option downloads fine.

Have a look

tom kosvic

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bug#55933: Fails download of quix 1.3 virtual machine

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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Thomas,

Thanks for the report.  I'm CC'ing <gnu@gnu.org> as documented 
here[0] to get their opinion.

Thomas C Kosvic 写道：
> [0] does not download a file, it tries to open the file in 
> thevrowser.

This is not universal: it works fine in Firefox 100.

However, there does seem to be an inconsistency with the GNU FTP 
server:

~ λ curl -LI 
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.3.0.x86_64-linux.iso 
|
    grep Content-Type
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Type: application/x-iso9660-image

~ λ curl -LI 
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-1.3.0.x86_64-linux.qcow2 
|
    grep Content-Type
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

The QCOW2 response is missing a Content-Type, whilst asking 
browsers not to sniff it for themselves.  Apparently your browser 
is making an exceptionally bad call.

Kind regards,

T G-R

[0]: 
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-1.3.0.x86_64-linux.qcow2
[1]: https://ftp.gnu.org/

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bug#55933: Fails download of quix 1.3 virtual machine

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

Very late… Well hunting old bugs. :-)

On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 at 23:14, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:

> Thanks for the report.  I'm CC'ing <gnu@gnu.org> as documented here[0] to get
> their opinion.

[...]

> However, there does seem to be an inconsistency with the GNU FTP server:
>
> ~ λ curl -LI
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.3.0.x86_64-linux.iso |
>    grep Content-Type
> X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
> Content-Type: application/x-iso9660-image
>
> ~ λ curl -LI
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-1.3.0.x86_64-linux.qcow2 |
>    grep Content-Type
> X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
>
> The QCOW2 response is missing a Content-Type, whilst asking browsers not to
> sniff it for themselves.  Apparently your browser is making an exceptionally
> bad call.

I get:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ curl -LI  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.3.0.x86_64-linux.qcow2 | grep Content-Type
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Does it mean the issue is gone?

Cheers,
simon

bug#55933: Fails download of quix 1.3 virtual machine

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

Hi Simon,

Thanks for hunting.

On 10 September 2024 16:05:40 UTC, Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
>I get:
>
>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>$ curl -LI  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.3.0.x86_64-linux.qcow2 | grep Content-Type
>Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>Does it mean the issue is gone?

Nope.

I mean, if the server were now "actively* serving a gigabyte-plus VM image as HTML, the issue would be much worse...

However, it's serving HTML because that URL is now a 404 status page.  The qcow2 image has been deleted.

I'm a bit surprised by that.  I somewhat assumed that releases were kept forever.

Anyway, the original issue is unchanged:

$ curl -LI https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-1.3.0.x86_64-linux.qcow2 | grep Content-Type
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

Kind regards,

T G-R

Sent on the go.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.