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- freesoftware@lemmy.zip
- cross-posted to:
- freesoftware@lemmy.zip
When I visit the f-droid website, my browser offers me to save a file with a random name. I cannot view the website at all. Any hints?
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I cant. I'm on my phone right now. Just picture a save file dialog from 3 browsers with a random string dot something as filename. I noticed on my phone the file is named something like downloads.bin.
I don't know if this useful, but the link works in the UK... I would be interested to hear if you have any luck with it, sorry I can't be any use beyond this.
I had the thought of trying a VPN set to other countries if you can, or different DNS settings, but I imagine you already thought of it but can't think of much else.
Best of luck with it :)
<drumroll...>Tada!....
It suddenly is working. I didn't change a thing.
@catloaf@lemm.ee suggested I get suspicious about my country or ISP. Should I worry, now?!... :-(
Seriously, did the f-droid folks change anything on their end?
That's bizarre! Glad it's working, but what the Dickens made it behave so strangely? I imagine it wouldn't be anything nefarious, especially since its only fdroid, but... Damn that's odd!
Glad it solved itself at last :)
I tried to use some webproxy to test other locations and had the same result - only difference is the name offered for the file to download.
Thanks.
Ahha! With a blank bowser profile directory it works as expected. It has to be HSTS, right? Now, how do I fix this?
Checked on mobile, doesn't happen for me. I'll try on my desktop Arch setup.
On my desktop, the name is something like <random>.ptrom. Im from Portugal. Could ptrom have anything to do with it?
