Post a reply

Before posting, please read how to report bug or request support effectively.

Bug reports without an attached log file are usually useless.

Options
Add an Attachment

If you do not want to add an Attachment to your Post, please leave the Fields blank.

(maximum 10 MB; please compress large files; only common media, archive, text and programming file formats are allowed)

Options

Topic review

Guest

Inconsistent download URLs for RC releases

Hi,

I've installed WinSCP using Scoop. Current version is 6.5.7. However I want to test latest beta, 6.6.3.RC, to sign in using OpenSSH ssh-agent. Scoop has a nice feature to auto-generate manifests for any version, but it won't work with RC versions.

> scoop install winscp@6.6.3.RC

INFO  Resolving historical manifest for 'winscp' (6.6.3.RC)
WARN  No historical manifest found for 'winscp@6.6.3.RC'; attempting autoupdate
Autoupdating winscp
Searching hash for WinSCP-6.6.3.RC-Portable.zip in https://winscp.net/download/WinSCP-6.6.3.RC-ReadMe.txt
Found: 10df2b9191641b321d5e0ab58dcaac8042cf92ace19a7ef8ffe35ac196a100ea using Extract Mode
Writing updated winscp manifest
Installing 'winscp' (6.6.3.RC) [64bit] from generated manifest
The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
ERROR URL https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/winscp/WinSCP/6.6.3.RC/WinSCP-6.6.3.RC-Portable.zip is not valid


Indeed, the proper URL is https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/winscp/WinSCP/6.6.3 RC/WinSCP-6.6.3.RC-Portable.zip, i.e. the release folder is named with a space before RC instead of a dot.

Could the folder name be the actual release version, only with dots and without space? I believe it will be useful for other automation software as well.

Thanks