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?
Is it F-droid.apk?
Can you take a screen record?
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.
Actualy, downloadfile.bin.
thats very strange
That could be your browser saving html instead of showing it.
Well… just saved one of those files, renamed it to file.html and opened it with the browser. Seems to be the f-droid homepage lacking the css.
What could it be? That doesn’t happen on any other website.
The content seems html but the name is something else. On android the suggested filename is downloadfile.bin. creepy.
I have never had this issue
Check your
hostsfile.Both hosts and resolv.conf are ok.
I have no issues going to the website.
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 :)
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.
Curses! That’s incredibly strange
<drumroll…>Tada!..
It suddenly is working. I didn’t change a thing.
@[email protected] 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 :)
Just a thought: could it be hsts?
Ahha! With a blank bowser profile directory it works as expected. It has to be HSTS, right? Now, how do I fix this?
On my desktop, the name is something like <random>.ptrom. Im from Portugal. Could ptrom have anything to do with it?
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Does your ISP or government interfere with your Internet access? When you view the cert, does it show that it was issued by Let’s Encrypt?
I hope not.
I can’t inspect any cert. The browser url bar doesn’t show the padlock.
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It happen in both http and https, but http wold redirect to https wouldn’t it?
The cert is letsencrypt, yes. Didn’t verify the details, though.
Checked on mobile, doesn’t happen for me. I’ll try on my desktop Arch setup.
It’s a phone app?
On the desktop.
Try it on your phone. F-Droid is an android app.
Also if the random file you’re getting is F-Droid.apk, that’s the file you need to install it on your phone.
No no no. The app seems to work ok. It’s the website that seems broken.
Works fine for me on firefox.
Forgoy to say: firefox, chromium, epiphany on debian with gnome
ask on a linux community
Bang! Firefox on windows - same thing!
