I found the culprit. There is an extension named "Sourceforge Direct Download". If you do not configure the extension (it takes a preferred mirror for downloads) then you get the behavior I mentioned in my original post. If you do configure it, you get the normal download page from which you can select a mirror. Sounds like a worthless extension to me, it's gone. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3961173#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...