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Cannot easily download Qt Creator using Chrome

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    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • Chrome Version 88.0.4324.190 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 10

      Chrome Version 92.0.4515.159 (Official Build) (x86_64) on macOS 10.14

      Chrome Version 92 on Windows 10
    • macOS, Windows

    Description

       I saw that QtC 4.14.1 was released and I wanted to download it.

      I went to https://www.qt.io/offline-installers

      I clicked on the link whose text is "Qt Creator 4.14.1 for Windows 64-bit (284 MB) ", url=https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qtcreator/4.14/4.14.1/qt-creator-opensource-windows-x86_64-4.14.1.exe

      Chrome opened a new blank tab and then automatically killed that tab after about a second. Nothing was actually downloaded and I got no indication that there was any error, other than that the file was never downloaded.

      Clicking the (info) link next to the download link takes me to https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qtcreator/4.14/4.14.1/qt-creator-opensource-windows-x86_64-4.14.1.exe.mirrorlist

      Clicking on any of the links to the file on different mirrors on that page also does not give me the download.

      I noticed that all download links use "http". If I copy one of the links to the clipboard, paste into the location bar, and change the "http" to "https", the download is successful. I shouldn't need to do this, and most users won't know to do this.

      If I understand https://blog.chromium.org/2020/02/protecting-users-from-insecure.html correctly, this is the expected behavior since the web page containing the link is accessed via https but the file itself is over http.

       

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