On Sun, 6 Sep 2020, 15:57 Matthias Bläsing, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> > The IDE treats as relative from the original link, not the end point.
> > This is the cause of problems, hence question about absolute linked
> > catalogs per mirror.
>
> Even the endpoint, that serves the updates.xml.gz is not the right
> point for the binary downloads.
>

Well, no, but thinking of older problem with the netbeans.a.o to vm
redirect, where you get rejected if you hit it too much (eg. cluster
download). Links relative to endpoint of updates.xml would still redirect
to mirrors, but fix that problem. Absolute links a better option for other
issues as well though.

Best wishes,

Neil

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