[Bug 1713615] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer fails because Redirection from https to http is forbidden

[Graham Inggs]

Fetching from github was significantly faster than fetching from
sourceforge (when it worked) for me in South Africa.  I contacted Peter
(pushcx on github) and he set up his mirror four years ago in order to
work around a different sourceforge issue [1] and does not intend to
remove it.

As Julian pointed out above, the redirection from https to http only
occurs when redirecting to the failedmirror page, after the actual
problem has occurred.  I'm still not clear on what the problem with the
mirror is, but it is not that the files are not there.

[1] https://push.cx/2015/installing-you-need-a-budget-ynab-on-arch-linux

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Title:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer fails because Redirection from https to http
  is forbidden

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-restricted-extras package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This started soon after upgrading to Artful.
  The logs below show the failure is not always in the same file.

  
  Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6ubuntu1_all.deb ...
  mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
  Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu1) over (3.6ubuntu1) ...
  Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.184) ...

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB]
  Fetched 198 kB in 10s (19.6 kB/s)                                              

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe [554 kB]
  Fetched 554 kB in 8s (66.4 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe [168 kB]
  Fetched 168 kB in 5s (31.0 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/comic32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/comic32.exe [246 kB]
  Fetched 246 kB in 6s (40.1 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/courie32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/courie32.exe [646 kB]
  Fetched 646 kB in 12s (51.9 kB/s)                                              

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/georgi32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/georgi32.exe [392 kB]
  Fetched 392 kB in 9s (40.5 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/impact32.exe
  Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/impact32.exe
    Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 200.236.31.2 443]
  E: Failed to fetch https://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/impact32.exe  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 200.236.31.2 443]
  E: Download Failed

  ...

  Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6ubuntu1_all.deb ...
  mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
  Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu1) over (3.6ubuntu1) ...
  Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.184) ...

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB]
  Fetched 198 kB in 5s (36.6 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
  Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
    Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 200.236.31.2 443]
  E: Failed to fetch https://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/arial32.exe  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 200.236.31.2 443]
  E: Download Failed

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.6ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-11.12-generic 4.12.5
  Uname: Linux 4.12.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
  Date: Tue Aug 29 07:11:50 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-04-28 (2679 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-08-28 (0 days ago)

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