On 4 April 2016 at 15:28, Oliver Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Vladimir, I can pull out the host from this using: > > preferred=$(curl -s 'http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?as_json=1' | grep > "preferred" | cut -d ':' -f3 | cut -d'/' -f3)
No need, the URL I gave is equivalent. > But there's another problem: The mirrors only seem to host the latest version > of JMeter. Yes, that is intentional. > Older versions, as far as I can tell, only live on archive.apache.org > <http://archive.apache.org/> Yes. or www.apache.org <http://www.apache.org/>. Huh? No. > I know that these servers are not meant to serve binaries like this but I > keep ending coming back to using them. > > I thought about trying to host older versions myself but it will break each > time a new release is made. Why will it break? And why do you want to use the older versions? > Another solution I considered was only allowing the latest version to be used > but that would mean an uncontrolled upgrade for everyone each time a release > is made, which isn't correct. > > >> On 4 Apr 2016, at 13:34, Vladimir Sitnikov <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> curl 'http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?as_json=1' >> gives something like >> { >> "backup": [ "http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/";, >> "http://www-us.apache.org/dist/"; ], >> "cca2": "ru", >> "http": [ "http://apache-mirror.rbc.ru/pub/apache/"; ], >> "path_info": "", >> "preferred": "http://apache-mirror.rbc.ru/pub/apache/"; >> } >> >> Then you grep for preferred somehow, then construct the proper URL. >> >> Does that work for you? >> Vladimir >> >
