ossp-uuid download woes (again)

[nnutter]

It looks like this formula has had problems in the past, #14265, and may be having problems again. I'm just starting to look into it but I have not been able to download the package from two different internet connections and for the past three days.

Here's verbose curl log,

$ brew fetch -f ossp-uuid
==> Downloading ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz
* Adding handle: conn: 0x7f9480803a00
* Adding handle: send: 0
* Adding handle: recv: 0
* Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
* - Conn 0 (0x7f9480803a00) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
* About to connect() to ftp.ossp.org port 21 (#0)
*   Trying 194.97.152.152...
* Connected to ftp.ossp.org (194.97.152.152) port 21 (#0)
< 220 ftp.ossp.org OSSP Anonymous FTP Server (ProFTPD) ready.
> USER anonymous
< 331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete email address as your password
> PASS ftp@example.com
< 230-   _ 
<    |_|_ _    ___  ___ ___  ____ 
<    _|_||_|  / _ \/ __) __)| __ \ Welcome to the FTP service of OSSP. 
<   |_||_|_| | |_| \__ \__ \| ___/ You are number 3 of maximal 10 users.
<    |_|_|_|  \___/(___/___/|_|    Our localtime is Sun Dec 22 19:18:00 2013.
<  
< 230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply
> PWD
< 257 "/" is the current directory
* Entry path is '/'
> CWD pkg
< 250-CWD command successful
<  Please read the file README
< 250    it was last modified on Sat Jun  8 06:57:46 2002 - 4215 days ago
> CWD lib
< 250 CWD command successful
> CWD uuid
< 250 CWD command successful
> EPSV
* Connect data stream passively
< 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||30754|)
*   Trying 194.97.152.152...
* Connecting to 194.97.152.152 (194.97.152.152) port 30754
> TYPE I
< 200 Type set to I
> SIZE uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz
< 213 397048
> RETR uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz

at which point it just seems to hang indefinitely.

[nnutter]

I've found three mirrors:

https://gnome-build-stage-1.googlecode.com/files/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz/5db0d43a9022a6ebbbc25337ae28942f/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz

The first mirror is the same as the formula's mirror except HTTPS instead of just HTTP. However I also had some weird behavior with it:

# HTTP
$ curl -IL "http://gnome-build-stage-1.googlecode.com/files/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz"
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
...

# HTTPS - #1
$ curl -IL "https://gnome-build-stage-1.googlecode.com/files/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz"
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
...

# HTTPS - #2
$ curl -IL "https://gnome-build-stage-1.googlecode.com/files/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz"
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
...

$ wget "https://gnome-build-stage-1.googlecode.com/files/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz"
...
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OKAY
...

2013-12-22 12:29:10 (1.88 MB/s) - ‘uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz’ saved [397048/397048]

# HTTPS - #3
$ curl -IL "https://gnome-build-stage-1.googlecode.com/files/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz"
HTTP/1.1 200 OKAY
...

[nnutter]

For anyone that might be interested in any changes. It looks like a Bottle is now provided for Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks (because of #16077). Which means for those OSs I guess you just hit one of the Homebrew Bottle mirrors instead of hitting the "flaky" OSSP FTP server.