For me the closer.cgi links bring up the text of a download script instead of an HTML page with download links. I don't think we have a choice - we need to upgrade ASAP. - Steve
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote: > When I went to Infra's hipchat channel and brought up a general problem > with closer.cgi that a user mentioned on the #solr IRC channel, they > told me that closer.cgi is going awayand being replaced with > closer.luainstead. This is in response to a new DDOS attack that > apparently happened today. Infra has not made any kind of general > announcement, but they did request that I update our websites. > > Infra appears to be making closer.cgi less precise than closer.lua as a > way to encourage switching. Compare what happens with the two following > links: > > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/5.3.0 > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/lucene/java/5.3.0 > > The mirrors on the cgi version do not point right at the specific > release like they used to, and the lua version does. > > I'm willing to change all the links we have in our CMS trunk and publish > it, just want to make sure that's really OK. > > Thanks, > Shawn > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
