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
>
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