So what did we do in the end ?
Tom
On 03/09/15 13:53, Nicholas Kwiatkowski wrote:
They didn't give a drop-dead date for the move, but they asked us to start
making the change. I think it would be reasonable for us to push that
change with the next installer update.
I don't think we need our own CGI script in the future, if we can utilize
the JSON file. They originally put that in for the Open Office folks, so I
know they won't change it on the fly for the next reason.
-Nick
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
Yup, it certainly is a hack, but one we could put in place quickly.
How long did Infra say they’d let us run the way we currently are? Are
they also deprecating the asjson param in favor of as_json?
If we do go and change the Installer, it seems like we need to have it
pull its mirror URL from a new entry in the sdk-installer-4.0.xml file,
otherwise we’ll break current installs. Does that make sense? And if we
are going to use JSON, do we even our own cgi script. Seems like we can
just parse what we need out of the JSON?
-Alex
On 9/2/15, 1:37 PM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicholaskwiatkow...@gmail.com>
wrote:
We could, but that is very hack-ish. Even more hack-ish than the
installer
code-base.
-Nick
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
I’m just exploring ways to avoid having to make another Installer
release.
From a quick look at the code, the Installer code effectively
screen-scrapes the cgi result. It looks like it is looking for the
first
<p> tag. Switching to JSON certainly makes sense, but then we need a
new
release. Could our single-mirror-url.cgi call mirror.cgi with as_json
and
find the URL in the JSON, wrap it in a <p> tag and return that? I don’t
know much about cgi.
-Alex
On 9/2/15, 12:18 PM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski"
<nicholaskwiatkow...@gmail.com> wrote:
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?
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