Trouble download mono 6.12 installer from download.mono-project.com

[theJenix]

Not sure if this is the right place, but following the instructions on www.mono-project.com it seemed like it was worth discussion. I am having trouble downloading the mono installer for 6.12 for Windows 64-bit from a browser, wget, or thru chocolatey.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Browse to www.mono-project.com
2. Click download, then Windows
3. Click Download Mono 64-bit (no GTK#)

3b. Or, right click on Download Mono 64-bit (no GTK#), copy the link, and in a terminal execute wget <copied link>
3c. Or, on a Windows machine with Chocolatey installed, run choco install mono -y in an Administrator terminal.

Current Behavior

Varying degrees of ending too early, failing and retrying, or downloading a partial file.

On Linux with wget, I get something that looks like:

It seems to hang like that indefinitely.

In Edge on Windows, it just hangs.

choco claims the download is successful but then it fails the checksum

These results were observed on several machines in several hosting configurations (local/residential cable internet, AWS EC2, cloud hosted CI server, to name a few).

Incidentally, Safari on macOS downloads the file just fine.

Expected Behavior

The file should download successfully in all cases.

On which platforms did you notice this

[ ] macOS
[x] Linux
[x] Windows

Version Used:

6.12.0.206-x64

Stacktrace

N/A

[admalledd]

For what it is worth, it seems that the https://download.mono-project.com server(s) are having a bit of an issue. Here is a screengrab of the error if attempted to use a browser:

and for the network guru numbers: 20240510T223815Z-17c65945bcbjfc8b4eu0eadc6000000006mg00000002bz7u

I am intermittently getting successful pages/downloads again so I think things are coming back up?

[theJenix]

I think things have improved, but my choco install from my CI (circleCI, Windows server 2019 image) is still failing its checksum test which suggests the connection is being closed before the download is complete.

[michaelosthege]

Still happening a few minutes ago --- for Ubuntu

Err:6 https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu buster/snapshots/6.12 Release
#24 3.055   404  Not Found [IP: 13.107.213.67 443]

E: The repository 'http://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu buster/snapshots/6.12 Release' no longer has a Release file.

[directhex]

Any improvement?

[michaelosthege]

Yes. The HTTP link now runs into a The account being accessed does not support http error, but switching to HTTPS works just fine.

[alexiaizenberg]

Every time it's a different issue:

<Error>
<Code>BlobNotFound</Code>
<Message>
The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:fe01150d-101e-008a-6b02-a84ba2000000 Time:2024-05-17T02:29:22.4767384Z
</Message>
</Error>

[directhex]

Yes. The HTTP link now runs into a The account being accessed does not support http error, but switching to HTTPS works just fine.

OK, is HTTP working again?

[directhex]

Every time it's a different issue:

<Error> <Code>BlobNotFound</Code> <Message> The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:fe01150d-101e-008a-6b02-a84ba2000000 Time:2024-05-17T02:29:22.4767384Z </Message> </Error>

I don't know what file is being referred to here, so there's nothing for me to investigate.

[alexiaizenberg]

Every time it's a different issue:
<Error> <Code>BlobNotFound</Code> <Message> The specified blob does not exist. RequestId:fe01150d-101e-008a-6b02-a84ba2000000 Time:2024-05-17T02:29:22.4767384Z </Message> </Error>

I don't know what file is being referred to here, so there's nothing for me to investigate.

Anything under snapshots:
https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu/dists/stable-focal/snapshots/index.html

[directhex]

I'll see what I can do about at least a portion of the missing index.html files

[directhex]

OK, index.html files to a folder depth of 9 have been created, rather than the wget default of 5