Hi, as there was _zero_ feedback, I just killed the experiment. I'll leave the code in the tools repository.
Greetings Matthias Am Dienstag, dem 02.03.2021 um 20:08 +0100 schrieb Matthias Bläsing: > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, den 30.01.2020, 14:55 +0000 schrieb Jean-Marc Borer: > > > > This is bit of a complaint addressed to the NB infra community. When you > > are stuck behind corporate proxy that is very aggressively filtering web > > content, mirrors are a nightmare for you. In my case we need to whitelist > > every single server hosting java binaries otherwise we get empty files. As > > such, it is not viable to declare every single mirror (the company won't > > accept that). > > > > So my request is: please for NB IDE updates and their core components, > > never ever use mirrors or provide an option to always point to the same > > mirrored site. > > > > This may sound silly, but is really an issue within enterprises and > > therefore prevent the adoption of NB IDE far more than the alternatives, > > which is really a pity... > > > > this is a late reply, but I finally managed to get this into a state > I'm willing to put into production and get it onto the > netbeans-vm1.apache.org server. > > So that no one can hold this against me: THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL! > > The problem is, that we have to serve the update catalog from a trusted > source, but still want to use the mirror infrastructure to distribute > load around the globe. The idea to fix this is to allow the user to > choose a mirror, while still fetching the catalog from netbeans-vm. > > The code can be found here: > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans-tools > > The instructions how to use can be found here: > > https://netbeans-vm1.apache.org/uc-proxy-chooser/mirror-list.php > > Basicly this URL: > > https://netbeans-vm1.apache.org/uc/12.2/updates.xml.gz?{$netbeans.hash.code} > > becomes this: > > https://netbeans-vm1.apache.org/uc-proxy-chooser/12.2/updates.xml.gz?{$netbeans.hash.code}&mirror=<mirrorkey> > > The PHP Script behind this uses the original update catalog (with > cryptographic hashes) and patches the URLs in it to directly point to > the chosen mirror. > > For anyone with interest in the generated content, I found this command > line to be helpful: > > curl > https://doppel-helix.eu/uc-proxy-chooser/12.2/updates.xml.gz?mirror=ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de > | gzip -d | less > > > With this modification, two servers need to be whitelisted: > > - the chosen mirror host (for active releases) > - archive.apache.org (for older releases) > > > I would be interested in feedback. > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
