Hi, Am Dienstag, den 14.04.2020, 06:02 +0200 schrieb antonio: > I see your point, I just can't understand why this computes the URLs on > the server side (in the netbeans-vm php file) and not on the client side > (in the IDE itself). > > Wouldn't it be easier to let the user choose her preferred mirror(from a > drop down list, for example) and then compute the appropriate URLs from > that? I have a limited understanding on the internals of the update > center logic, so I usually get lost on this.
ok, the problem is this: updates.xml is our trust anchor. It must come from a trusted source (apache infrastructure) and that is not the case for the mirror network. In the updates.xml the URLs to location to the nbms is specified relative to the location of the updates.xml file. This is where the current redirection magic comes in. When nbms are requested the request is passed through a redirect cascade, that ends in closer.lua, which redirects the request to the "right" mirror. The problem is: a) the right mirror can't be found when requested via IPv6 b) the right mirror sometimes needs to be one specific mirror c) if the users location can't be determined "preferred" in closer.lua is ignored So instead of relying on closer.lua the script moves the decision to the user. Who can specify the mirror to use via the `mirror` parameter. The PHP script modifies the XML structure to hold absolute URLs instead of relative ones. This could be moved to the Netbeans Code, but then the already fragile autoupdate code would need a special case just to deal with the speciality of the apache infrastructure. We saw in the past, that nearly nobody is willing to go into the autoupdate code and I don't see this changing anytime soon. It would still be helpful to create the right URL in the IDE, but without the server support, this won't fly. Greetings Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
