IIRC it has something to do with network configuration. On my machine /etc/resolv.conf isn't a link against something systemd related: [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ /bin/ls -l /etc/resolv.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94 Nov 16 15:44 /etc/resolv.conf IIRC this might be the culprit. 1. #### I experienced the same issue with several PKGBUILDs from AUR. An example from 2018, I needed to change url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Goo-Canvas/" to url="https://metacpan.org/pod/Goo::Canvas" and source=("http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/Y/YE/YEWENBIN/Goo-Canvas-$pkgver.tar.gz") to source=("https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/Y/YE/YEWENBIN/Goo-Canvas-$pkgver.tar.gz") to get rid of "403 Forbidden". 2. #### If I copy the clamav signature link from a Firefox download, then wget works: [rocketmouse@archlinux test]$ wget "https://clamav-site.s3.amazonaws.com/production/release_files/files/000/000/698/original/clamav-0.103.4.tar.gz.sig?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAU7AK5ITMGOEV4EFM%2F20211120%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20211120T063226Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=33b8bab037986bff7d0a97bd212c85cdec3c9825aca5c03ffc81e076872471f3" The destination name is too long (292), reducing to 236 --2021-11-20 07:39:05-- https://clamav-site.s3.amazonaws.com/production/release_files/files/000/000/698/original/clamav-0.103.4.tar.gz.sig?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAU7AK5ITMGOEV4EFM%2F20211120%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20211120T063226Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=33b8bab037986bff7d0a97bd212c85cdec3c9825aca5c03ffc81e076872471f3 SSL_INIT Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt' Resolving clamav-site.s3.amazonaws.com (clamav-site.s3.amazonaws.com)... 52.217.38.156 Connecting to clamav-site.s3.amazonaws.com (clamav-site.s3.amazonaws.com)|52.217.38.156|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 801 [] Saving to: ‘clamav-0.103.4.tar.gz.sig?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAU7AK5ITMGOEV4EFM%2F20211120%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20211120T063226Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=33b8bab0’ clamav-0.103.4.tar.gz.sig?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4- 100%[======================================================================================================>] 801 --.-KB/s in 0s 2021-11-20 07:39:05 (7.76 MB/s) - ‘clamav-0.103.4.tar.gz.sig?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAU7AK5ITMGOEV4EFM%2F20211120%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20211120T063226Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=33b8bab0’ saved [801/801] [rocketmouse@archlinux test]$ cat clamav-0.103.4.tar.gz.sig\?X-Amz-Algorithm\=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256\&X-Amz-Credential\=AKIAU7AK5ITMGOEV4EFM%2F20211120%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request\&X-Amz-Date\=20211120T063226Z\&X-Amz-Expires\=3600\&X-Amz-SignedHeaders\=host\&X-Amz-Signature\=33b8bab0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJhgZyJAAoJEGCbAk8rPt0H7AMQAJ7wxx96nMvhTGkxSAen/BZa fHFrF0eof2x5DZc7e7fXV7OoHAQ78dftGIey2pqu0qPtONxPo1ZyBClHP4sWFdV2 NlVExiKSzB2wOw1nGJN2CYnNI1uFRm3jzxZP2fhfcUnpL1spuWKAAKUZqyKxIRIa j4jBc+Gu9F+svBwIyZZk9ga+W4U04oNafsgTtZJoZ7Rf3uWujws6Zy98hMeuO71I cI6UF1nb4TBSYj2OgXYY+bl8qvhswzcjYCT+OHDXLXqCgcNxSEcK6vcgyRcCfBJQ YPYQc0uziG+BzaOLxjHZMpIzbCo2SBRtyluH16Fddy2DJmMrgpuOPNeaeAHFW5uM OK0dEUleYuBKpbQxHVDQC6Qw5xSqtVXdfAyYQJ/p7k9fCFbsLxx8HGVSEoqE6jEH dwe7mCNfKrlQSxQSJaRZKaAsqDAd+2zxkUYuT6IP0dXFzeoihwvuppPmBvEwErDV 4OgnZC2Aw6LHIYqjvQWTyxd1euL7UUoeNel3nLZwZ0EmnhJ3C5RIp97MUHM+vOWY EIyxx93GKHZWM18WOxXPV87Lt7YCIo1QOUQVbhapmKRGOYFq8bu/75LFlpKwebnw MOljABOb1td7qqsYy30awp7bGiqni2dXXRA5eHwl5q+11776BP4yERIUDNJbG++M kuhICU7B1d21gl5MwFuw =CJWI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----