Eclipse 3.5.1 update error (HTTP 503)

Question

I'm trying to update Eclipse 3.5.1 (on Gentoo Linux) from the Galileo Discovery Site and I get this error message:

Network connection problems encountered during search.
  Unable to access "http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo".
    Error accessing site stream. [Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd]
    Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
    Error accessing site stream. [Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd]
    Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd

It seems the 503 error code is intended to stop software from constantly downloading this file from w3.org. But how do I persuade Eclipse to stop requesting it?

Answer 1

I am having the same problem with Galileo on a Mac. Have you resolved the problem yet? If so, I'd love to find out how.