Can't download shakespeare.json: too many redirects

adamd · February 13, 2016, 10:37pm

The page Getting Started with Kibana (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/getting-started.html) points to a sample data file shakespeare.json. When I attempt to download it, my browser complains:

Too many redirects

Is there any fix or workaround? thanks!

warkolm · February 13, 2016, 11:06pm

Worked for me the first time I tried it!

adamd · February 13, 2016, 11:38pm

Odd - when I try the download in Firefox, Chromium or wget it fails with a redirect loop - see the output below. I'm on Ubuntu 15.10. I do see IPv6 addresses in the wget output - perhaps this could have to do with that?

$ wget http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/3.0/snippets/shakespeare.json
--2016-02-13 18:36:00-- http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/3.0/snippets/shakespeare.json
Resolving www.elastic.co (www.elastic.co)... 2406:da00:ff00::3210:ef4e, 2406:da00:ff00::3213:d205, 2406:da00:ff00::1717:57a0, ...
Connecting to www.elastic.co (www.elastic.co)|2406:da00:ff00::3210:ef4e|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/3.0/snippets/shakespeare.json [following]
--2016-02-13 18:36:00-- https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/3.0/snippets/shakespeare.json
Connecting to www.elastic.co (www.elastic.co)|2406:da00:ff00::3210:ef4e|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/3.0/snippets/shakespeare.json [following]
--2016-02-13 18:36:00-- http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/3.0/snippets/shakespeare.json
Connecting to www.elastic.co (www.elastic.co)|2406:da00:ff00::3210:ef4e|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
...

adamd · February 14, 2016, 7:28am

I found the shakespeare.json file in the Kibana GitHub repository:

github.com

elastic/kibana/blob/3.0/docs/snippets/shakespeare.json

{"index":{"_index":"shakespeare","_type":"act","_id":0}}
{"line_id":1,"play_name":"Henry IV","speech_number":"","line_number":"","speaker":"","text_entry":"ACT I"}
{"index":{"_index":"shakespeare","_type":"scene","_id":1}}
{"line_id":2,"play_name":"Henry IV","speech_number":"","line_number":"","speaker":"","text_entry":"SCENE I. London. The palace."}
{"index":{"_index":"shakespeare","_type":"line","_id":2}}
{"line_id":3,"play_name":"Henry IV","speech_number":"","line_number":"","speaker":"","text_entry":"Enter KING HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, the EARL of WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and others"}
{"index":{"_index":"shakespeare","_type":"line","_id":3}}
{"line_id":4,"play_name":"Henry IV","speech_number":1,"line_number":"1.1.1","speaker":"KING HENRY IV","text_entry":"So shaken as we are, so wan with care,"}
{"index":{"_index":"shakespeare","_type":"line","_id":4}}
{"line_id":5,"play_name":"Henry IV","speech_number":1,"line_number":"1.1.2","speaker":"KING HENRY IV","text_entry":"Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,"}
{"index":{"_index":"shakespeare","_type":"line","_id":5}}
{"line_id":6,"play_name":"Henry IV","speech_number":1,"line_number":"1.1.3","speaker":"KING HENRY IV","text_entry":"And breathe short-winded accents of new broils"}
{"index":{"_index":"shakespeare","_type":"line","_id":6}}
{"line_id":7,"play_name":"Henry IV","speech_number":1,"line_number":"1.1.4","speaker":"KING HENRY IV","text_entry":"To be commenced in strands afar remote."}
{"index":{"_index":"shakespeare","_type":"line","_id":7}}
{"line_id":8,"play_name":"Henry IV","speech_number":1,"line_number":"1.1.5","speaker":"KING HENRY IV","text_entry":"No more the thirsty entrance of this soil"}
{"index":{"_index":"shakespeare","_type":"line","_id":8}}
{"line_id":9,"play_name":"Henry IV","speech_number":1,"line_number":"1.1.6","speaker":"KING HENRY IV","text_entry":"Shall daub her lips with her own childrens blood;"}
{"index":{"_index":"shakespeare","_type":"line","_id":9}}
{"line_id":10,"play_name":"Henry IV","speech_number":1,"line_number":"1.1.7","speaker":"KING HENRY IV","text_entry":"Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields,"}

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So that's one way to get it as a workaround.

warkolm · February 15, 2016, 3:46pm

$ wget http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/3.0/snippets/shakespeare.json
--2016-02-15 07:46:29-- http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/3.0/snippets/shakespeare.json
Resolving www.elastic.co... 54.68.69.182, 54.69.84.185
Connecting to www.elastic.co|54.68.69.182|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 25216068 (24M) [application/json]

Maybe you have a proxy in place?

adamd · February 15, 2016, 4:05pm

There was no proxy - I was trying this at home with a Comcast internet connection.

I just tried the download where I am now (at work) and it worked fine. I strongly suspect this is related to IPv6 since your wget output shows IPv4 addresses, as does mine when I try this here at work. I happen to know that my home ISP (Comcast) allows IPv6 resolution whereas my work environment does not.