Den tis 28 dec. 2021 kl 17:07 skrev Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com >:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 9:22 AM Daniel Sahlberg > <daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone seen guidance from ASF on updating the download page? > Apparently the old mirror system has been retired, see > https://apache.org/history/mirror-history.html > > > > We should /at least/ remove the link to https://www.apache.org/mirrors/ > (it is 404). I believe we can remove the complete Mirror section. > > > > Kind regards, > > Daniel > > > > > > PS. It seems we are not the only ones who missed the news. Even httpd > has the same 404 link. > > Ah, yes, ASF switched from the mirror system to a CDN. It was my > understanding that it was supposed to be transparent as far as we're > concerned, meaning we did not need to make any changes to our download > pages. But obviously the https://www.apache.org/mirrors/ address is no > longer valid, so that link should be removed. I wouldn't remove the > entire Mirror section because it does still list two choices, one > being the dlcdn and the other being a backup. > Do you see different mirrors as primary and backup? For me both are the dlcdn. But I guess this could vary with location. Slightly off-topic but worth mentioning: there's some infra magic > sauce in this page code. If you check .htaccess you'll see a > RewriteRule to use download.cgi, while download.html contains special > bracketed markup. I think this mechanism is part of a response to a > DDoS attack that happened back in the day. There's some documentation > at [1], at least on how projects needed to migrate from the old system > to the (then) new one; this might provide some further insights into > how it works. > > [1]: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Download+page+(mirror+script)+migration+steps > > Cheers, > Nathan >
