Am 4. April 2016 14:29:13 MESZ, schrieb Oliver Lloyd <[email protected]>:
>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?

Have you tried "curl -L 'http://...";?

Regards, 
Felix 

>
>
>> 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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