I have not been able to connect to any ftp site.... I opened Bug 349679
Until this gets sorted out, I suggest that we limit ourselves to http.

On 2011-06-17, at 12:21 AM, David M Williams wrote:

> I'm hoping to get a quick confirmation that p2 can use either ftp:// or 
> http:// to retrieve artifacts. 
> 
> And I don't mean "in theory", but I mean what should "we" use in our 
> mirrorsURL attribute? 
> 
> Such as 
> 
> http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/eclipse/updates/3.6/R-3.6.2-201102101200&format=xml
>  
> 
> versus 
> 
> http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/eclipse/updates/3.6/R-3.6.2-201102101200&format=xml&protocol=http
>  
> 
> I have a memory of long ago being told "... doesn't use ftp, so just as well 
> restrict to http mirrors only". But, I'm wondering ... am I remembering the 
> old updateManager? 
> 
> I've poked around, and see the platform does _not_ restrict to http only, and 
> some old forum post that say something like "p2 uses ECF so its what ever ECF 
> supports so ftp should be ok". 
> 
> So, before I change the mirrors URL in our common repository, I wanted some 
> expert advise or confirmation from this list? 
> 
> Thank you, 
> 
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