id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
8278	Failing to download from API	sabas88@…	team	"Since some days Josm cannot download the data from the API. The error window says the connection initialization failed.

I started josm from terminal and here's the error I have


{{{
org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmApiInitializationException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 22; columnNumber: 3; The element type ""meta"" must be terminated by the matching end-tag ""</meta>"".
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmApi.initialize(OsmApi.java:261)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmApi.initialize(OsmApi.java:202)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmServerReader.getInputStream(OsmServerReader.java:46)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.io.BoundingBoxDownloader.parseOsm(BoundingBoxDownloader.java:135)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.actions.downloadtasks.DownloadOsmTask$DownloadTask.parseDataSet(DownloadOsmTask.java:171)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.actions.downloadtasks.DownloadOsmTask$DownloadTask.realRun(DownloadOsmTask.java:178)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.PleaseWaitRunnable.doRealRun(PleaseWaitRunnable.java:82)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.PleaseWaitRunnable.run(PleaseWaitRunnable.java:145)
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 22; columnNumber: 3; The element type ""meta"" must be terminated by the matching end-tag ""</meta>"".
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:198)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:177)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:391)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1404)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1726)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2915)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:625)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:488)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:819)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:748)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:123)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1208)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:525)
	at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:392)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmApi.initialize(OsmApi.java:220)
	... 13 more
}}}

"	defect	closed	normal		Core		fixed	api, sax, download