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Bug 369044 - Automatic redirection from downloads to archives is broken
Summary: Automatic redirection from downloads to archives is broken
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Community
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Servers (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Eclipse Webmaster CLA
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Reported: 2012-01-19 04:17 EST by Nicolas Bros CLA
Modified: 2012-01-20 05:20 EST (History)
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Description Nicolas Bros CLA 2012-01-19 04:17:40 EST 
download.eclipse.org used to redirect requests to archive.eclipse.org automatically. This makes it possible to archive old releases (in order to free up space in the main — mirrored — download area) in a transparent way as far as the final user is concerned.

But this doesn't work anymore:
http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/modisco/downloads/drops/0.9.0/R201106080421/MODISCO-Update-0.9.0.zip

The above link should download from the archive automatically instead of displaying an error page.
Comment 1 Denis Roy CLA 2012-01-19 08:51:50 EST 
download.e.o has never automatically redirected to archives.  The mirror script does this.

A link to:

http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/modisco/downloads/drops/0.9.0/R201106080421/MODISCO-Update-0.9.0.zip

Should be:

http://eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/modeling/mdt/modisco/downloads/drops/0.9.0/R201106080421/MODISCO-Update-0.9.0.zip

If you use links like this, you can move files from download.e.o to archive.e.o (preserving the same path) and never have to update your links.
Comment 2 Nicolas Bros CLA 2012-01-20 05:20:36 EST 
Thank you for your answer.

For future reference, Bug 349141 describes a procedure to move update sites to archive.eclipse.org, while keeping them accessible from the same URL.