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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
>>>>
>>>
>>
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