That url is in theory exactly what I need and it works well in a browser but I'm not able to make it work from the CLI using something like wget or curl. Does anyone know how to make that cgi script serve me the file and not just the html for the download page?
> On 3 Apr 2016, at 22:48, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3 April 2016 at 20:46, Oliver Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bintray sounds ideal. Speeds between dl.bintray.com and AWS are very fast. >> >> My issue is I can't really use a mirror because they change but linking to >> the host servers is bad because they're not designed to serve these files. A >> distribution as a service provider like bintray would definitely solve this >> problem. > > Why not? > > It's possible to use the automatic mirror chooser with a parameter > that automatically downloads: > > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?filename=jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-2.13.zip&action=download > >> In the meantime I'm experimenting with using 'www.apache.org/dist/ >> <http://www.apache.org/dist/>...' vs. 'archive.apache.org/dist/ >> <http://archive.apache.org/dist/>...' and this seems better. > > Neither of those should be used for normal downloads. > They are for last resort backup purposes / archived releases only. > >> >>> On 3 Apr 2016, at 20:31, Vladimir Sitnikov <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> What if we deployed binary artifacts to maven, then they would get >>> mirrored to bintray? >>> >>> Groovy is using bintray.com for distribution of their binaries: >>> http://groovy-lang.org/download.html links to >>> https://dl.bintray.com/groovy/maven/apache-groovy-sdk-2.4.6.zip >>> >>> Oliver, >>> Can I kindly ask you to download something like >>> https://dl.bintray.com/groovy/maven/apache-groovy-sdk-2.4.6.zip >>> to check if that will be good enough? >>> >>> Vladimir >>> >> >
