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On 4 April 2016 at 13:29, Oliver Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>> >>> >> >
