I have not been able to connect to any ftp site.... I opened Bug 349679 Until this gets sorted out, I suggest that we limit ourselves to http.
On 2011-06-17, at 12:21 AM, David M Williams wrote: > I'm hoping to get a quick confirmation that p2 can use either ftp:// or > http:// to retrieve artifacts. > > And I don't mean "in theory", but I mean what should "we" use in our > mirrorsURL attribute? > > Such as > > http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/eclipse/updates/3.6/R-3.6.2-201102101200&format=xml > > > versus > > http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/eclipse/updates/3.6/R-3.6.2-201102101200&format=xml&protocol=http > > > I have a memory of long ago being told "... doesn't use ftp, so just as well > restrict to http mirrors only". But, I'm wondering ... am I remembering the > old updateManager? > > I've poked around, and see the platform does _not_ restrict to http only, and > some old forum post that say something like "p2 uses ECF so its what ever ECF > supports so ftp should be ok". > > So, before I change the mirrors URL in our common repository, I wanted some > expert advise or confirmation from this list? > > Thank you, > > _______________________________________________ > p2-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev
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