Firefox Nightly .rpm package for RPM based linux distributions

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Fedora 41+ commands:

sudo dnf config-manager addrepo --id=mozilla --set=baseurl=https://packages.mozilla.org/rpm/firefox --set=gpgcheck=0 --set=repo_gpgcheck=0

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

sudo dnf install firefox-nightly
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If I try to open https://packages.mozilla.org/rpm/firefox in my browser it doesn’t work, although I can ping the host. I see that it redirects to the same URL but with port 8080 and that port doesn’t answer:

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$ netstat -n | grep 8080
tcp        0      1 192.168.1.208:46036     34.160.78.70:8080       SYN_SENT   
tcp        0      1 192.168.1.208:55672     34.160.78.70:8080       SYN_SENT   
tcp        0      1 192.168.1.208:55680     34.160.78.70:8080       SYN_SENT   
tcp        0      1 192.168.1.208:55682     34.160.78.70:8080       SYN_SENT   
$ host packages.mozilla.org
packages.mozilla.org is an alias for repository.prod.productdelivery.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net.
repository.prod.productdelivery.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net has address 34.160.78.70
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DNF does not need directory listing:

baseurl=https://packages.mozilla.org/rpm/firefox
curl -L ${baseurl}/repodata/repomd.xml
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Good to know, thanks for explaining this.

However, returning some kind of error would be much better than redirecting to an inactive port in case the directory listing isn’t supported.