BTW, in the npm installer, I am using http://www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi/?asjson=true
This returns a simple json object which works very well. Maybe we should switch to this, if we continue to see these kind of issues. Thanks, Om On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 9/1/16, 4:48 PM, "Clint M" <cmod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Because my workaround worked… I'm guessing the config file ( > >http://flex.apache.org/installer/sdk-installer-config-4.0.xml) should be > >updated from: > >https://flex.apache.org/single-mirror-url--xml.cgi > >to: > >https://flex.apache.org/single-mirror-url.cgi > > > >It seems like the installer isn't actually expecting an xml response and > >plain text just works. > > > >I think most browsers and AIR for the flex sdk installer are respecting > >the > >content type that's set to xml but the actual response is just plain text > >with no xml content. > > In November 2015, single-mirror-url.cgi started returning plain text with > an extra line-feed that broke the installer. It had been working for > years before that. Apache Infrastructure had no clue how that could > happen and basically said they were too busy to investigate. So I > fashioned a workaround using the --xml.cgi file which worked until today, > then stopped working, and may have started working again. Maybe it does > have to do with my not getting the content type correct, but if it working > again, I'm not going to investigate further either. > > -Alex > >
