Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing
| Summary: | FTP to download.eclipse.org doesn't work. | ||
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| Product: | Community | Reporter: | Rutger Ovidius <ovidr> |
| Component: | Servers | Assignee: | Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | platform-releng-inbox |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
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Description
Rutger Ovidius
We noticed anon FTP to download.eclipse.org was broken last week, then we realized it has been broken since Dec. 5/06. We were thinking of simply disabling the service altogether (it's obvious no one really uses it) and asking the Platform releng team to remove the FTP working from their download pages. Kim, Sonia, thoughts? No one uses anonymous FTP anymore, right? sure go ahead I have opened bug 181062 for the changes needed on the releng side. If you are removing the ftp service, can you please tell me the correct way to get the downloads of all SWT releases? I used to be able to ftp into the server, change to the nightly directory and "get swt*". On the web site I must click http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/N20070404-0010/index.php Select the SWT version (win32). Select the "Main Download Server". Start download. Return to http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/N20070404-0010/index.php Select the next SWT version (gtk). Select the "Main Download Server". Start download. And repeat for all of them. This is painfully slow. (In reply to comment #3) > If you are removing the ftp service, can you please tell me the correct way to > get the downloads of all SWT releases? Many of our mirrors have an FTP service you can use. Use this XML list of FTP mirrors as a starting point, and use one of our mirrors close to you: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.2.2-200702121330/swt-3.2.2-win32-win32-x86.zip&protocol=ftp&format=xml Unfortunately the nightly builds don't seem to be mirrored anywhere ftp'able (or anywhere at all). (In reply to comment #5) > Unfortunately the nightly builds don't seem to be mirrored anywhere ftp'able > (or anywhere at all). You're right - nightly builds are not mirrored at all. We can keep the FTP service in place - it's not like it's a big deal. I figured that since it hadn't been working since December and no one seemed to notice that we could just get rid of it. Another option, if you want to avoid the ftp service, would be to let the eclipse web server list the directory indexes for the downloads directories. Example: http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/eclipse/eclipse/downloads/drops/ But this currently is not enabled on eclipse.org: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ This would allow "mget swt*" to work. So Denis, have you decided to keep/renable the ftp service. If so, I will close my bug to remove the ftp links from the build page. We've discussed, and we won't re-enable FTP simply for the lack of popularity the service had. Enabling Apache directory browsing is against our security policy. To fetch your nightly builds, simply maintain a nice wget script. |