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Re:Cloudflare Package Repository Mirrors by rwha on Saturday August 22, 2020 @09:37AM (#24244030)
I saw the same. My best initial guess is that this is somehow caused by cloudflare either setting the content-type header to text/plain or not setting the accept-ranges header. Or maybe both?
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Re:Cloudflare Package Repository Mirrors by p00f on Saturday August 22, 2020 @10:12AM (#24244261)
> not setting the accept-ranges header

Mostly that, because it doesn't support resuming partial downloads either (it says http server does not support byte ranges)

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Re:Cloudflare Package Repository Mirrors by dennajort on Sunday August 23, 2020 @07:48AM (#24251234)
Oh ! totally makes sense, nice guess. and very interesting
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