Windows 10 installation error: Exception calling "DownloadFile" with "2" argument(s)

[yuxi-liu-wired]

My setup: Julia v1.3.0, with

  [c52e3926] Atom v0.11.3
  [ad839575] Blink v0.12.0

I got error during Blink.AtomShell.install()

Exception calling "DownloadFile" with "2" argument(s): "An exception occurred during a WebClient request."
At line:1 char:82
+ ... pe]::Tls12; (new-object net.webclient).DownloadFile("https://github.c ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException

ERROR: failed process: Process(`'C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell' -NoProfile -Command '[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; (new-object net.webclient).DownloadFile("https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v4.0.4/electron-v4.0.4-win32-x64.zip", "electron-v4.0.4-win32-x64.zip")'`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]

Stacktrace:
 [1] pipeline_error at .\process.jl:525 [inlined]
 [2] #run#565(::Bool, ::typeof(run), ::Cmd) at .\process.jl:440
 [3] run at .\process.jl:438 [inlined]
 [4] download at C:\Users\Yuxi\.julia\packages\Blink\AO8uN\src\AtomShell\install.jl:28 [inlined]
 [5] (::Blink.AtomShell.var"#1#4")() at C:\Users\Yuxi\.julia\packages\Blink\AO8uN\src\AtomShell\install.jl:50
 [6] cd(::Blink.AtomShell.var"#1#4", ::String) at .\file.jl:93
 [7] install() at C:\Users\Yuxi\.julia\packages\Blink\AO8uN\src\AtomShell\install.jl:27
 [8] top-level scope at REPL[47]:1

[twavv]

Possibly this error?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13712462/exception-calling-downloadfile-with-2-arguments-an-exception-occurred-d/13713555

[yuxi-liu-wired]

It's probably the same error, but I don't know how to fix it. The link is for Java.

[twavv]

I'm really not sure what this error is.

Can you try uninstalling Blink, running

rm(joinpath(first(DEPOT_PATH), "Blink"), recursive=true) 

to delete any old Blink installations, and then try installing again?

Possible issues I can think of:

• Your user on the system you're working on somehow doesn't have permission to write files to the location where Blink is installed
• There's some firewall that is failing the download (I think this is less likely because it's an HTTPS request to GitHub)

[yuxi-liu-wired]

I tried, and I got the a slightly different error.

Exception calling "DownloadFile" with "2" argument(s): 
"The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden."   
At line:1 char:82
+ ... pe]::Tls12; (new-object 
net.webclient).DownloadFile("http://junolab.s ...
+
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], Meth  
   odInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException
 
ERROR: failed process: Process(`'C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell' -NoProfile -Command '[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; (new-object net.webclient).DownloadFile("http://junolab.s3.amazonaws.com/blink/julia.png", "julia.png")'`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]

Stacktrace:
 [1] pipeline_error at .\process.jl:525 [inlined]
 [2] #run#565(::Bool, ::typeof(run), ::Cmd) at .\process.jl:440
 [3] run at .\process.jl:438 [inlined]
 [4] download at C:\Users\Yuxi\.julia\packages\Blink\4FM8Y\src\AtomShell\install.jl:28 [inlined]
 [5] (::Blink.AtomShell.var"#1#2")() at C:\Users\Yuxi\.julia\packages\Blink\4FM8Y\src\AtomShell\install.jl:30 [6] cd(::Blink.AtomShell.var"#1#2", ::String) at .\file.jl:93
 [7] install() at C:\Users\Yuxi\.julia\packages\Blink\4FM8Y\src\AtomShell\install.jl:27
 [8] top-level scope at none:0

Opening the file location http://junolab.s3.amazonaws.com/blink/julia.png gives

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<Error>
<Code>AccessDenied</Code>
<Message>Access Denied</Message>
<RequestId>43AC9F7B73C34D04</RequestId>
<HostId>
Zw+FQRy3BXzIo5LCVqM5GNnTSzMWvSGxcN9m0mjOGX6mhZOrnEQSOU13tHGZiuQwk9+a8DLm+xo=
</HostId>
</Error>

I tried using VPN, and not using VPN (I'm in mainland China), and both caused the same XML error.

[yuxi-liu-wired]

Others have reported the same error without VPN
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/exception-calling-downloadfile-with-2-argument-s-the-remote-server-returned-an-error-403-forbidden/32929

[twavv]

The second issue should be resolved now (a file was deleted from an Amazon S3 storage bucket but it was put back).

Feel free to re-open if you have similar issues still.

[yuxi-liu-wired]

The installation works now.

[supersrh]

I kept gotting the same error until I switched the VPN mode to "global agent" @_@
My heart is broken