Downloading Build Information

[DrTeeth]

Hi,

It has been a long time since I used the Rockbox Utility; I was waiting for a new stable release.

Anyway, when I load it, it says "Downloading Build Information...Please wait" for ages and then I get a download failure message. Please see screenshot. Is there a problem at my end or with the central server?

Many thanks

DrT

[saratoga]

Doesn't seem to be working for me either.  You can just download the build from the link on the left side of your screen though.

[DrTeeth]

Hi Saratoga,

It's nice to know it is not me.

BTW, as it has been 3.5 years since the last stable release, is there likely to be one soon? I am holding off buying some more MP3 players until I can find what has happened/will be happening to RockBox.

If RockBox does not support it, I don't buy it.

Regards

DrT

[saratoga]

We have new builds regularly.  I don't know when we'll get around to putting together a new release build.

[gevaerts]

Much rockbox.org was switched to https, with forced redirect. This apparently broke rockbox utility.
download.rockbox.org has now been changed to allow plain http, which should fix the issue for now.

[bluebrother]

I would be interested if you have the System Trace of Rockbox Utility stored -- looking at the code it should work, and when I change the URLs to https it works fine for me. Haven't tested on Windows yet though.

[gevaerts]

I would be interested if you have the System Trace of Rockbox Utility stored -- looking at the code it should work, and when I change the URLs to https it works fine for me. Haven't tested on Windows yet though.

It works now, and I have no doubt that it works if the base URL is https. What does not work (and I can't easily provide a trace, doing that would require the server config to be changed again) is if the initial URL returns a redirect. For some reason the redirect isn't followed properly.

[DrTeeth]

We have new builds regularly.  I don't know when we'll get around to putting together a new release build.

Thank you

[DrTeeth]

Much rockbox.org was switched to https, with forced redirect. This apparently broke rockbox utility.
download.rockbox.org has now been changed to allow plain http, which should fix the issue for now.

Thanks

[bluebrother]

It works now, and I have no doubt that it works if the base URL is https. What does not work (and I can't easily provide a trace, doing that would require the server config to be changed again) is if the initial URL returns a redirect. For some reason the redirect isn't followed properly.

That's quite strange -- I just created a simple test program that tries to download http://www.rockbox.org (which redirects), and I see that the server responds with a redirect, then it follows the redirect and downloads the front page. That works even on Windows (I was wondering if it might be related to the fact that Windows might not be aware of the Let's Encrypt certificate)