We are OK still having the .cgi on our site as is. But they deprecated the results of mirrors.cgi that output just the URL. They want us to use that same script, but with the JSON output.
-Nick On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Thanks for digging into this. FWIW, the flex-sdk download.xml ant script > currently uses closer.cgi. The FlexJS install script uses > http://www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi. If infra has shut off > mirrors.cgi then we have more work to do, although we already hit > mirrors.cgi with an “asjson” parameter as opposed to the “as_json” > parameter Infra is now suggesting. Is Infra blocking the old asjson > parameter? > > Before we put everything on hold to try to create another Installer > release, is there any way we can redirect our single-mirror-url.cgi to > some other URL? I don’t know if the .htaccess files kick in first, or if > we can fix the installer by changing the sdk-installer-config-4.0.xml to > point to a single-mirror-url.lua or something like that. AFAICT, the > installer picks up the URL of single-mirror-url.cgi from the > sdk-installer-config-4.0.xml file. > > -Alex > > > On 9/2/15, 7:11 AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicholaskwiatkow...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >Infra has put in a temporary fix for this. Everything should be working > >again. > > > >They have asked us to switch to a system that can parse JSON. The JSON > >call will call the new LUA script which helps them out. > > > >It looks like we will have to fix the installer badge and the installer > >itself. I don't think anything else depends on the CGI on our server > >(somebody correct me if I'm wrong). The new URL to parse would be > >http://flex.apache.org/single-mirror-url.cgi?as_json=1 > > > >-Nick > > > >On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski < > >nicholaskwiatkow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> I'm working with infra to see what is going on. We are not the only > >> project to report it, it seems. > >> > >> -Nick > >> > >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Tom Chiverton <t...@extravision.com> > >>wrote: > >> > >>> Yes, I am afraid so. > >>> > >>> They have made changes to how the mirror URLs are retrieved. > >>> It looks like we will need to change the installer to replace .cgi with > >>> .lua in the call, and also tidy up whatever is causing the HTML > >>>comment to > >>> appear. > >>> > >>> In the mean time, you should be able to install using Ant (instructions > >>> on the help page linked from the side of the installer Flash app). > >>> > >>> Tom > >>> > >>> On 02/09/15 12:30, Harbs wrote: > >>> > >>>> Is this a problem with the Apache mirror setup? > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >
