I’m just exploring ways to avoid having to make another Installer release. From a quick look at the code, the Installer code effectively screen-scrapes the cgi result. It looks like it is looking for the first <p> tag. Switching to JSON certainly makes sense, but then we need a new release. Could our single-mirror-url.cgi call mirror.cgi with as_json and find the URL in the JSON, wrap it in a <p> tag and return that? I don’t know much about cgi.
-Alex On 9/2/15, 12:18 PM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicholaskwiatkow...@gmail.com> wrote: >We are OK still having the .cgi on our site as is. But they deprecated >the >results of mirrors.cgi that output just the URL. They want us to use that >same script, but with the JSON output. > >-Nick > >On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> Hi Nick, >> >> Thanks for digging into this. FWIW, the flex-sdk download.xml ant >>script >> currently uses closer.cgi. The FlexJS install script uses >> http://www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi. If infra has shut off >> mirrors.cgi then we have more work to do, although we already hit >> mirrors.cgi with an “asjson” parameter as opposed to the “as_json” >> parameter Infra is now suggesting. Is Infra blocking the old asjson >> parameter? >> >> Before we put everything on hold to try to create another Installer >> release, is there any way we can redirect our single-mirror-url.cgi to >> some other URL? I don’t know if the .htaccess files kick in first, or >>if >> we can fix the installer by changing the sdk-installer-config-4.0.xml to >> point to a single-mirror-url.lua or something like that. AFAICT, the >> installer picks up the URL of single-mirror-url.cgi from the >> sdk-installer-config-4.0.xml file. >> >> -Alex >> >> >> On 9/2/15, 7:11 AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" >><nicholaskwiatkow...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >Infra has put in a temporary fix for this. Everything should be >>working >> >again. >> > >> >They have asked us to switch to a system that can parse JSON. The JSON >> >call will call the new LUA script which helps them out. >> > >> >It looks like we will have to fix the installer badge and the installer >> >itself. I don't think anything else depends on the CGI on our server >> >(somebody correct me if I'm wrong). The new URL to parse would be >> >http://flex.apache.org/single-mirror-url.cgi?as_json=1 >> > >> >-Nick >> > >> >On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski < >> >nicholaskwiatkow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> I'm working with infra to see what is going on. We are not the only >> >> project to report it, it seems. >> >> >> >> -Nick >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Tom Chiverton <t...@extravision.com> >> >>wrote: >> >> >> >>> Yes, I am afraid so. >> >>> >> >>> They have made changes to how the mirror URLs are retrieved. >> >>> It looks like we will need to change the installer to replace .cgi >>with >> >>> .lua in the call, and also tidy up whatever is causing the HTML >> >>>comment to >> >>> appear. >> >>> >> >>> In the mean time, you should be able to install using Ant >>(instructions >> >>> on the help page linked from the side of the installer Flash app). >> >>> >> >>> Tom >> >>> >> >>> On 02/09/15 12:30, Harbs wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> Is this a problem with the Apache mirror setup? >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >>
