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| Summary: | Mirrors should state whether they use HTTP or FTP on download pages and update managers | ||
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| Product: | Community | Reporter: | Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt> |
| Component: | Website | Assignee: | phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox> |
| Status: | VERIFIED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | ed.burnette |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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Description
Alex Blewitt
I'd like to make it clear that I disagree with Denis' comments regarding my blog post. I am not doing this for extortion nor blackmail, and I fully agree that bugs are prioritised and processed in a manner that the appropriate team should handle. I intended to raise the point so that others would be aware of the issue, not to encourage wilful usage of Eclipse.org's resources. In fact, I raised both this bug to help highlight ways in which Eclipse.org could minimise bandwidth in the future by giving users more information about the choice and operation of mirrors. I will be perfectly happy for this bug to be closed WONTFIX if there is no community support, or it is impractical. My aim was simply to make Eclipse a better place by highlighting things that could be done better. I still think that having (http) or (ftp) in the title of the mirror would be of benefit, since if you need to select a mirror yourself it's a bit hit-or-miss as to which one it is. This also applies to mirrors in the update manager dialog, where you have no idea whether it's FTP or HTTP. If you go to the download page (where you get to choose a mirror) you can get it to filter out the HTTP ones or FTP ones by adding &protocol=http or &protocol=ftp to the URL. BTW I discovered that if you add &protocol=http to the end of the URL, you get a selected list of mirror sites back. Cool :-) Why not have (on the generated page) a link to (a href="...?protocol=http")see only http mirrors(/a), and similarly for ftp? I'll add this to bug 134630 too. (ftp) and (http) have been added to the mirror title, on the HTML list and on the XML list for Update. Update may take a while to display this.
> Why not have (on the generated
> page) a link to (a href="...?protocol=http")see only http mirrors(/a)
Because you didn't ask? So much for 10 minutes ;) I'd appreciate a separate bug for the above functionality, as I consider this one fixed.
D.
I've verifed this as fixed on the HTTP downloads; I'll let you know when I've seen it in an Eclipse install update manager. Bug 135297 has been raised for the other suggestion. Verified that this works inside Update Manager as well. If you mark this bug as fixed, I'll verify it. Marking as fixed |