<hr><i>anonymous claiming to be dlane added on 2010-03-03 16:29:51:</i><br>
A workaround which works currently could be 

<verbatim>
$ curl "http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/zip/Fossil-71edacd95f.zip?uuid=71edacd95f" > 71edacd95f.zip
</verbatim>

Fossil generally treats urls sanely and changes them slowly. It generally allows unique prefixes for artifacts: the browser url has a longer value for uuid but it turns out to be enough to replicate the shorter prefix that is available, for example in

<verbatim>
$ fossil finfo <filename>
</verbatim>

The perl/python/ruby/tcl(?) to bind these conveniently should not be very hard.
Tags etc left as a Simple Exercise for the Reader.