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Re: [fink-core] Fwd: Re: Best option to select a particular mirror for wget/curl download
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From: Alexander H. <ale...@gm...> - 2011-09-26 23:06:34
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/26/11 5:04 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > I asked SF.net about how to replace our ailing mirror list with > something that still contains geographic information and here's > the response. It looks like we'd need to do some additional coding > to implement it. I've also been playing around with Using "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/<project path>". This works with wget, but not curl: wget -U 'fink/0.31.2' --verbose --passive-ftp -O multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/octave/Octave\ Forge\ Packages/R2009-06-07/multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz - --2011-09-26 18:56:43-- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/octave/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/R2009-06-07/multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)... 216.34.181.59 Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)|216.34.181.59|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/octave/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/R2009-06-07/multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz [following] - --2011-09-26 18:56:44-- http://superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/octave/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/R2009-06-07/multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz Resolving superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net (superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net)... 209.61.193.20 Connecting to superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net (superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net)|209.61.193.20|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 30842 (30K) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: ?multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz? 100%[======================================>] 30,842 28.6K/s in 1.1s 2011-09-26 18:56:45 (28.6 KB/s) - ?multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz? saved [30842/30842] curl --connect-timeout 30 -f -L -A 'fink/0.31.2' -O http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/octave/Octave\ Forge\ Packages/R2009-06-07/multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- - --:--:-- 0 curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 400 ### execution of curl failed, exit code 22 Downloading the file "multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz" failed. > > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Best option to > select a particular mirror for wget/curl download Date: Mon, 26 Sep > 2011 16:54:45 -0400 From: SourceForge.net Support > <sfn...@ge...> To: Alexander Hansen > <ale...@gm...> > > Hello, > > We recommend that you simply use the "use_mirror" option to specify > a download mirror. Here's an example using wget: > > ~~~~~~ $ wget > http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/files/fink/0.31.2/fink-0.31.2.tar.gz/download?use_mirror=garr > > - --2011-09-26 16:48:40-- > http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/files/fink/0.31.2/fink-0.31.2.tar.gz/download?use_mirror=garr > > Resolving sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.60 > Connecting to sourceforge.net|216.34.181.60|:80... connected. HTTP > request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fink/fink/0.31.2/fink-0.31.2.tar.gz?r=&ts=1317070120&use_mirror=garr > > [following] > --2011-09-26 16:48:40-- > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fink/fink/0.31.2/fink-0.31.2.tar.gz?r=&ts=1317070120&use_mirror=garr > > Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.59 > Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.59|:80... > connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found > Location: > http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/fink/fink/0.31.2/fink-0.31.2.tar.gz > > [following] > --2011-09-26 16:48:41-- > http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/fink/fink/0.31.2/fink-0.31.2.tar.gz > > Resolving garr.dl.sourceforge.net... 193.206.140.34, 2001:760:ffff:b0::34 > Connecting to garr.dl.sourceforge.net|193.206.140.34|:80... > connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: > 1339174 (1.3M) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: > `fink-0.31.2.tar.gz' > > 100%[==============================================================================>] > > 1,339,174 340K/s in 4.2s > > 2011-09-26 16:48:46 (313 KB/s) - `fink-0.31.2.tar.gz' saved > [1339174/1339174] > > $ ~~~~~~ > > garr is actually almost across the globe from me, and I just used > that to demonstrate that it is indeed picking a mirror it wouldn't > have auto-selected (an auto-select would probably have selected > voxel for me). You can see a list of mirror shortnames to use > here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Mirrors > > Also note that this download URL will indeed require a tool that > follows 302 redirects, wget will do that automatically, curl > requires the -L option. I'm not familiar with axel, so I don't know > if that needs any special consideration or not. > > For further reading, we have some info in our community docs on > downloading via command-line here: > http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/community-docs/downloading-via-cli/ > > Regards, Chris Tsai SourceForge Support sfn...@ge... > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Alexander Hansen > <ale...@gm...> wrote: >> Hi. > >> I'm a developer with the Fink project. A good of the packages we >> maintain are hosted at SourceForge, but we're currently relying >> on redirection of our crufty URLs to find them. :-) We use >> tools like wget, curl, axel, .. to download the source files. > >> The current syntax we're using to pick out individual mirrors >> is, for example, to download directly from: > >> http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ > >> followed by the path to the project's source. These aren't >> resolving anymore and so users have to go through redirects to >> get the sources. > >> Do we have the option to choose a definite mirror, e.g. so our >> users can pick one close to them geographically? > > ==== This e- mail message is intended only for the named > recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential and privileged > information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby > notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this > e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. 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