On 7/26/12 12 :04PM, "Daniel Shahaf" <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>Try this link: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/flex/ > >I'm pretty sure there is a query string parameter you can add to make it >do a redirect, too, rather than just tell you what the preferred mirror >is. > >Thanks for asking, > >Daniel > >Carol Frampton wrote on Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 08:56:37 -0700: >> {sent on behalf of Erik de Bruin <e...@ixsoftware.nl> who is a member >>of flex-dev} >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm writing on behalf of the Apache Flex (incubating) community. We're >> working on a tool that helps an end-user to download and install our >> binaries to the correct location on their system for use in an IDE. >> >> We would like to do this the proper way, which in our understanding is >> by using a dynamically assigned download mirror instead of a >> hard-coded link. I've read all of the documentation I could find and >> I've come up with the following solution: >> >> 1. create a wrapper around the generic 'mirrors.cgi', as described in >>[1]; >> 2. create a HTML file containing only the tag: [preferred]. We need >> only one mirror URL as this is an automated download process; >> 3. place these two in the root of our project site; >> 4. call the wrapper CGI as a web service from our application, and use >> the result for the domain section of the URL. >> >> My questions: >> - is this a valid solution? >> - is there an 'easier' way to get a single dynamic mirror URL? >> - what did I miss, what did I forget to ask? >> >> Thank you very much for your assistance and patience, >> >> EdB >> >> [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages.html >> </message> >> >> EdB >>
