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?
GravitySpoiled ( @GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml ) English4•4 months agoIs 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.
leanleft ( @leanleft@lemmy.ml ) English2•4 months agothats very strange
Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English2•4 months agoI have never had this issue
bizdelnick ( @bizdelnick@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 months agoCheck your
hosts
file.Both hosts and resolv.conf are ok.
chevy9294 ( @chevy9294@monero.town ) English2•4 months agoThat could be your browser saving html instead of showing it.
The content seems html but the name is something else. On android the suggested filename is downloadfile.bin. creepy.
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.
Go-On-A-Steam-Train ( @GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 months agoI 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.
Go-On-A-Steam-Train ( @GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 months agoCurses! That’s incredibly strange
\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?
Go-On-A-Steam-Train ( @GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml ) 1•4 months agoThat’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 .ptrom. Im from Portugal. Could ptrom have anything to do with it?
paradox2011 ( @paradox2011@lemmy.ml ) 1•4 months agoChecked on mobile, doesn’t happen for me. I’ll try on my desktop Arch setup.
Bang! Firefox on windows - same thing!