On 04/09/2014 19:18, Geoff Meakin wrote: > The current version mirrors link might help you eg: > > http://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/sites/ftp.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-7/
There are times (normally just after a release) when multiple versions will show up there. Mark > > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 4 Sep 2014, at 18:48, "David P. Caldwell" <da...@code.davidpcaldwell.com> >> wrote: >> >> I have a small program that downloads and installs an arbitrary >> version of Tomcat, using the API provided by Apache to select the >> proper mirror, and so forth. >> >> The script currently takes the Tomcat version as an argument. My >> script provides a default (which in my case is the latest version of >> Tomcat 7), but I have to manually update that default whenever I >> notice a new version has been released. >> >> What would be the best way for the script itself to determine the >> latest available version? Obviously I would give points for "easy" and >> points for "robust," knowing that those two things might be in >> conflict. >> >> I can think of many horrifying ways to do it: >> >> * loop through integers starting with the last known version, >> attempting to download 7.0.x, until getting a 404 >> * scraping and parsing the HTML at >> http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/, which I expect is >> rather stable >> >> So my challenge isn't coming up with *a* way to do it, but coming up >> with the best way. >> >> Suggestions? >> >> -- David P. Caldwell >> http://www.davidpcaldwell.com/ >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
