Re: Sourceforge redirector proxy thing broken?
Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I was just trying to fix up a watch file for simpleproxy, which is
>> hosted on SourceForge, and I used the format the man page for uscan said
>> to use, which uses the qa.debian.org proxy. The thing is, that seems to
>> be broken, possibly because it's trying to talk to a down SourceForge
>> mirror.
>
> The redirector should be changed to point to downloads.sf.net instead
> of a specific mirror, because you can wget individual files from
> downloads.sf.net these days; it uses HTTP redirects to send you to the
> right mirror, and each one redirects back if they don't have the file.
>
The problem is that the syntax required to use downloads.sf.net is not that
works with the redirector.
ftp://upload.sourceforge.net isn't an option either because the http->ftp
redirection isn't correctly handled by uscan, resulting in a "no matching
hrefs for watch line".
The only one that seems to support directory listing and has most, if not
all, the files around is garr.
So, could somebody please make the redirector use
header("Location: http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/$project";);
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