Ok, I figured out what is happening and got Glassfish 4.1.1 to download and install via the NB installer :) Now I could use some guidance from the sages here on what they think the best way forward is! What is happening is:
1) NB first looks for the .txt file for the relevant Glassfish version on serverplugins.netbeans.org (it will follow redirects to try and find it). 2) If NB finds the txt file, it reads the first line, which contains the directory path for that version of glassfish (see http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/glassfishv3/post71v3-1-2.txt which is still up!) 2a) The directory path is appended to the hardcoded base URL, http://download.java.net 2b) NB will then try and download the glassfish .zip from this URL (but won't follow redirects!) 3) If NB fails to find/parse the .txt file, it will try and download the .zip from the direct download.java.net link (the one with the ?nbretriever=fallback querystring), but won't follow redirects Because there are now 301 redirects on the download.java.net URLs from http to https, even the fallback was failing. Changing the fallback URL for GF4.1.1. to https meant that it downloaded correctly. So my questions are: a) Do we want to keep this logic, and host .txt files with the download path on netbeans.apache.org? Probably the least intrusive way to get things working again.... b) If not, what to do with this logic? Delete it? comment it out and just the fallback URL? or leave it in and allow NB to waste a few cycles trying to find a .txt file that doesn't exist? c) Do we want to take this opportunity to update the java.download.net hostname to download.oracle.com, as that seems to be where the main Glassfish web page links to now for downloads? d) Should the fallback URL also follow redirects? Any and all opinions welcome :) HTH P On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:21 AM Pete Whelpton <peedee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not 100% sure yet... still working through the downloader code. For > each version of Glassfish supported, there is an enum > in > /enterprise/glassfish.common/src/org/netbeans/modules/glassfish/common/ServerDetails.java > that contains among other things two URLS: > > 1) Link to the Glassfish .zip file hosted on download.java.net > 2) Link to one of these .txt files hosted on serverplugins.netbeans.org > > E.g. for Glassfish 4.1.1: > > " > http://download.java.net/glassfish/4.1.1/release/glassfish-4.1.1.zip?nbretriever=fallback";, > // NOI18N > "http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/glassfishv3/post71v4-1-1.txt"; // NOI18N > > The download.java.net links still seem to be valid, but the > serverplugins.netbeans.org links aren't. > > It's still a bit of a hunch at the moment, and you are right, we need to > figure out how those txt files were used, but given that the downloader no > longer works in NB8.2 too, I'm thinking it could well be an external > dependency that is broken? > > I'm hoping somebody more experienced than I has an idea what those txt > files were for? > > > > P > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:54 AM Geertjan Wielenga > <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > >> How are they needed? I doubt they have been needed or used for a while >> since they come from Kenai which has not been around for some time. Thanks >> for your great work. >> >> Gj >> >> On Friday, January 25, 2019, Pete Whelpton <peedee...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi all :) >> > >> > Thought I might have a quick look into these (attempting to download >> > Glassfish via NB results in "Not Found" error). >> > >> > I think one problem here is that for each supported version of >> Glassfish, >> > there was a related text file on the old netbeans.org: >> > >> > * http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/glassfishv3/post701v3.txt >> > * http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/glassfishv3/post701v3-0-1.txt >> > * http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/glassfishv3/post701v3-1.txt >> > * http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/glassfishv3/post701v3-1-1.txt >> > * http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/glassfishv3/post71v3-1-2.txt >> > * http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/glassfishv3/post71v3-1-2.txt >> > * http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/glassfishv3/post71v4-0.txt >> > * http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/glassfishv3/post71v4-0-1.txt >> > * http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/glassfishv3/post71v4-1.txt >> > * http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/glassfishv3/post71v4-1-1.txt >> > * http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/glassfishv3/post71v5-0.txt >> > >> > Does anybody know: >> > >> > a) what these .txt files are? >> > b) if they made it to a new home on netbeans.apache.org? >> > >> > >> > P >> > >> >
