403 Forbidden Error Message at http://downloads.arduino.cc/

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Hi,

I am trying to download AVRDUDE and I was faced with the 403 forbidden message, is there a resolution for this problem?

Best Regards,
Shawkani

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I get a 404, not 403 but it's certainly an issue either way. I have already reported this to the Arduino developers earlier today at http://downloads.arduino.cc/tools/avrdude-6.3.0-arduino6-i686-mingw32.zip is missing · Issue #5400 · arduino/Arduino · GitHub. I'm suer they'll have it fixed in a few hours. Until then you can just download Arduino IDE 1.6.12 from http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software, which includes avrdude 6.3.0-arduino6 at arduino-1.6.12\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avrdude.exe(I think there's a .dll file in that folder that may be necessary also), and C:\Program Files (x86)\arduino-1.6.12\hardware\tools\avr\etc\avrdude.conf.

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Still 404 this morning if trying to go directly there.

Also was giving that file as an error in the IDE (1.6.11.) last night when trying to do an AVR board defs update but that seems fixed this morning.

If you remove the file name from the URL it gives you a 403 error.

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I think the right link is: http://downloads.arduino.cc/tools/avrdude-6.3.0-arduino6-i686-w64-mingw32.zip

Where did you get the other URL?

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@mastrolinux that was the URL in downloads.arduino.cc/packages/package_index.json before it was fixed.

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Yes, as pert said the link provided was from the JSON URL, actually Eclipse uses that URL to find required tools for the Arduino platform chosen and hence the link was broken Eclipse couldn't download the required tools.

Now, every thing works fine, it seems that the JSON URL data was fixed.

Thanks for your feedback.