On 07/07/14 12:27, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 12:15 +0100, Daniel Lintott wrote: > >> I don't know whether this has been found/investigated before but the >> appears to be an RSS feed for each project containing the file downloads. >> >> So for my package VPCS, the RSS feed is at: >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/vpcs/rss > > Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. >
No problem ;) >> It would seem this is a viable alternative as the links provided map to >> the SF mirror selector, so should always return a mirror with the >> correct files present. > > That isn't quite what we need for uscan but could be a good start, we > would still need to process the RSS into HTML though. > Indeed... I have managed to replicate the functionality of the current SF redirector using the RSS feed Demo: http://alpha.serverb.co.uk/debian/sf.php/vpcs Git: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/dlintott-guest/sf-rss.git Feel free to use if you'd like (it was mainly an exercise to flex my PHP skills again!) > I have been in contact with the SourceForge people and they are in the > evaluation process of creating a permanent fix for us: > > http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/8064/ > Ack... That would be very nice to see. Let's hope they can come up with a nice solution.
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