Hello
I’d like to add another use case.
I work at Avast (though in different department than the one responsible for this). What Avast wants to do is to consider rust binaries as „trusted source“ ‒ basically, there’s a big database of „likely malware“ and „likely clean“ binaries and the chance of flagging rustc.exe as malware is smaller if it gets into the „likely clean set“ (and rustc.exe does some things that make it suspicious for an AV ‒ like writing other binaries). Considering it as malware is not good for Avast, and it is not good for Rust.
Some time ago there was a setup that crawled and downloaded the releases and added them to the „likely clean“. But it recently stopped working, probably because of that 404 there. I wanted to report that 404, but I didn’t have the time to find out where exactly to send the report yet.
So, it would be nice if that page (or any other page) started to work again. The tarballs/zips (?) as they are now are fine for this use case (as is probably any other archive), though.
