On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 15:15, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote:
> Le 27/09/2021 à 13:10, Thibaut Cuvelier a écrit : > > Dear list, > > > > Recently, the major browsers stopped supporting FTP links. I don't like > > the change, but there's nothing I can do about it… > > > > The problem is that the LyX website still has one FTP link that could be > > replaced with the equivalent HTTP link, on https://www.lyx.org/Download > > <https://www.lyx.org/Download>. > > > > Section 8, link on " Pre-releases <ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/>" > > From ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ <ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ > > > > To http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ <http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/> > > I did that. Unfortunately I cannot put https (which would not make much > of a difference anyway) because, like for our list, this is just a DNS > entry for a site (ftp.lip6.fr) which is not ours. I do not think we can > do something about it). > > > Also, some mirrors only have FTP links: maybe these should be indicated > > as such? They don't work properly in HTTP… > > Universidad de Chile > > UCSD > > Shall I remove them? We could get rid of all ftp references. > As long as they are working and reasonably up to date, I don't see why they should be removed: maybe, in some places in the world, these are the only available proxies, or the only ones with some bandwidth, or any other reason. (For instance, Qt is a nightmare to install in some places — including France, in some cases! — because they don't allow you to change your mirror in the installer.)
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