Do bazel's *http_archive workspace rules not follow redirects?

[Jeremy Wall]

I'm attempting to write a rule that will pull down nunit as an external dependency. However the canonical URL does a 302 redirect to a CDN for the actual download and the rules appear not to actually follow that redirect and instead pull down the http redirect page.

Obviously putting in the CDN url is fragile and not future proof. Am I missing something?

[Jeremy Wall]

For reference here is the url in question: https://github.com/nunit/nunitv2/releases/download/2.6.4/NUnit-2.6.4.zip

And this is my new_http_archive call in the workspace file:

new_http_archive(

    name="nunit",

    build_file="tools/build_defs/dotnet/BUILD.nunit",

    sha256="1bd925514f31e7729ccde40a38a512c2accd86895f93465f3dfe6d0b593d7170",

    type="zip",

    url="http://github.com/nunit/nunitv2/releases/download/2.6.4/NUnit-2.6.4.zip"

)

[Kristina Chodorow]

It should be, I'll follow up on https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/527.

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