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[doug <1610665@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

After a disk failure, I had to do a completely fresh kubuntu 16.04.1 install.
I decided I hated the breeze style and was looking for something resembling classic.

Every menu within system-settings that tries to search online for new styles 
or icons or whatever, specifies in a file in, for example /etc/xdg/aurorae.knsrc 
that: 
    ProvidersUrl=http://downloads.kde.org/ocs/providers.xml

Unfortunately, the server now redirects that URL to:
              https://autoconfig.kde.org/ocs/providers.xml

That file should be retrieved by khotnewstuff4, which also works from the 
commandline like:

     $> khotnewstuff4 /etc/xdg/aurorae.knsrc

Currently, this fails, I suspect because iether it doesn't know how to handle the
server redirect, or, it doesn't know how to handle HTTPS.

I grabbed a copy of providers.xml and installed it in an apache2 /var/www/html folder, 
modified the ProvidersUrl to point to it on http://localhost... and then it worked just fine.

Hope you folks can sort this out!
Thanks

** Affects: kde-runtime (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  khotnewstuff4 fails to load providers.xml

Status in kde-runtime package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After a disk failure, I had to do a completely fresh kubuntu 16.04.1 install.
  I decided I hated the breeze style and was looking for something resembling classic.

  Every menu within system-settings that tries to search online for new styles 
  or icons or whatever, specifies in a file in, for example /etc/xdg/aurorae.knsrc 
  that: 
      ProvidersUrl=http://downloads.kde.org/ocs/providers.xml

  Unfortunately, the server now redirects that URL to:
                https://autoconfig.kde.org/ocs/providers.xml

  That file should be retrieved by khotnewstuff4, which also works from the 
  commandline like:

       $> khotnewstuff4 /etc/xdg/aurorae.knsrc

  Currently, this fails, I suspect because iether it doesn't know how to handle the
  server redirect, or, it doesn't know how to handle HTTPS.

  I grabbed a copy of providers.xml and installed it in an apache2 /var/www/html folder, 
  modified the ProvidersUrl to point to it on http://localhost... and then it worked just fine.

  Hope you folks can sort this out!
  Thanks

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