<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>curl does more or less the same as wget and --no-check-certificate is not always needed. It is necessary only for accessing https servers without a qualified certificate. I got a similar result. You can see "302 found" and redirection to another site. I am redirected to a site in Prague and the file is there. If you end up with "object not found", it means that you are redirected to a mirror which is not in syc or maybe even broken. You can try again later hoping that the mirror will be sychronized or find the list of mirrors and select a mirror manually. wget shows the redirections but you must add -v to see the redirections in curl. You will then see where exactly it fails.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Zdeněk Wagner<br><a href="http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml" target="_blank">http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml</a><br><a href="http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz" target="_blank">http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz</a></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">st 17. 10. 2018 v 14:44 odesílatel Philip Taylor <<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>> napsal:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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      <pre>On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 04:17, Norbert Preining <a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:preining@logic.at" target="_blank"><preining@logic.at></a> wrote:
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Hi,

something is blocking access to all our trials. The logs show that LWP,
curl, and wget failed :-(((

Can you try
        curl --user-agent texlive/curl --location <a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512" target="_blank">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512</a>
and show us the output?

Norbert
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    I don't have access to "curl" (nor do I know what it is or does) but
    attempting your suggestion with "wget" yields the following success
    report :<br>
    <br>
    <blockquote type="cite">D:\Temp > wget -S
<a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512" target="_blank">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512</a>
      --no-check-certificate<br>
      --user-agent=texlive/curl<br>
      SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc<br>
      syswgetrc = C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32/etc/wgetrc<br>
      --2018-10-17 13:40:22-- 
<a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512" target="_blank">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512</a><br>
      Resolving <a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ctan.org" target="_blank">www.ctan.org</a>... 176.28.54.184<br>
      Connecting to <a href="http://www.ctan.org" target="_blank">www.ctan.org</a>|176.28.54.184|:80... connected.<br>
      HTTP request sent, awaiting response...<br>
        HTTP/1.1 302 Found<br>
        Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:40:12 GMT<br>
        Server: Apache/2<br>
        X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN<br>
        X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block<br>
        X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff<br>
        Location:
<a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512" target="_blank">https://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512</a><br>
        Vary: Accept-Encoding<br>
        Content-Length: 365<br>
        Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=50<br>
        Connection: Keep-Alive<br>
        Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1<br>
      Location:
<a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512" target="_blank">https://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512</a>
      [following]<br>
      --2018-10-17 13:40:22-- 
<a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512" target="_blank">https://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512</a><br>
      Resolving ctan.org... 176.28.54.184<br>
      Connecting to <a href="http://ctan.org" target="_blank">ctan.org</a>|176.28.54.184|:443... connected.<br>
      WARNING: cannot verify <a href="http://ctan.org" target="_blank">ctan.org</a>'s certificate, issued by
      `/C=US/ST=Arizona/L=Scottsdale/O=Starfield Technologies,
      Inc./OU=<a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cer" target="_blank">http://cer</a><br>
      <a href="http://ts.starfieldtech.com/repository//CN=Starfield" target="_blank">ts.starfieldtech.com/repository//CN=Starfield</a> Secure Certificate
      Authority - G2':<br>
        Self-signed certificate encountered.<br>
      WARNING: certificate common name `*.<a href="http://dante.de" target="_blank">dante.de</a>' doesn't match
      requested host name `<a href="http://ctan.org" target="_blank">ctan.org</a>'.<br>
      HTTP request sent, awaiting response...<br>
        HTTP/1.1 302 Found<br>
        Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:40:12 GMT<br>
        X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN<br>
        X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block<br>
        X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff<br>
        Location:
      <a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512" target="_blank">http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512</a><br>
        Content-Length: 0<br>
        Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=50<br>
        Connection: Keep-Alive<br>
        Content-Type: text/plain<br>
      Location:
      <a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512" target="_blank">http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512</a>
      [following]<br>
      --2018-10-17 13:40:22-- 
      <a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512" target="_blank">http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512</a><br>
      Resolving mirrors.ctan.org... 176.28.54.184<br>
      Connecting to <a href="http://mirrors.ctan.org" target="_blank">mirrors.ctan.org</a>|176.28.54.184|:80... connected.<br>
      HTTP request sent, awaiting response...<br>
        HTTP/1.1 302 Found<br>
        Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:40:12 GMT<br>
        Server: Apache/2<br>
        X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN<br>
        X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block<br>
        X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff<br>
        Location:
<a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512" target="_blank">http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512</a><br>
        Vary: Accept-Encoding<br>
        Content-Length: 373<br>
        Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=50<br>
        Connection: Keep-Alive<br>
        Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1<br>
      Location:
<a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512" target="_blank">http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512</a>
      [following]<br>
      --2018-10-17 13:40:22-- 
<a class="m_6853393918053285880moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512" target="_blank">http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512</a><br>
      Resolving mirror.ox.ac.uk... 163.1.160.163, 163.1.221.67<br>
      Connecting to <a href="http://mirror.ox.ac.uk" target="_blank">mirror.ox.ac.uk</a>|163.1.160.163|:80... connected.<br>
      HTTP request sent, awaiting response...<br>
        HTTP/1.1 200 OK<br>
        Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:40:12 GMT<br>
        Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Debian)<br>
        Last-Modified: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:23:00 GMT<br>
        ETag: "1f427756-90-57861ac370100"<br>
        Accept-Ranges: bytes<br>
        Content-Length: 144<br>
        Keep-Alive: timeout=10, max=100<br>
        Connection: Keep-Alive<br>
        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br>
      Length: 144 [text/plain]<br>
      Saving to: `texlive.tlpdb.sha512.2'<br>
      <br>
100%[==========================================================================================>]
      144         --.-K/s   in 0s<br>
      <br>
      2018-10-17 13:40:22 (5.45 MB/s) - `texlive.tlpdb.sha512.2' saved
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    <br>
    Note that "--no-check-certificate" is required for success.<br>
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    <div class="m_6853393918053285880moz-signature">-- <br>
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      Philip Taylor</div>
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