Re: List of mirrors - help needed

2019-08-24 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Saturday, August 24, 2019 at 1:24:52 PM UTC-4, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > -- > hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: > 111. You and your friends get together regularly on IRC, even though > all of you live in the same city. > I was expecting the last word to be "house"

Re: List of mirrors - help needed

2019-08-24 Thread George Dinwiddie
Anton On 8/24/19 11:51 AM, Anton Shepelev wrote: Many https: links no longer work for me in Windows XP. Is there any reason for providing public software via HTTPS? Yes, as otherwise a man-in-the-middle attack could give you a version of vim with malware inserted. You may find wget

Re: List of mirrors - help needed

2019-08-24 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Anton Shepelev wrote: > > The ftp protocol is slowly fading away. Still, we provide > > the Vim sources through ftp. > > Anonymous FTP is great. It means I can download software > without a bloated browser that updates once a week. And it > does not force me to upgrade my software, then the

Re: List of mirrors - help needed

2019-08-24 Thread Anton Shepelev
Bram Moolenaar: > The ftp protocol is slowly fading away. Still, we provide > the Vim sources through ftp. Anonymous FTP is great. It means I can download software without a bloated browser that updates once a week. And it does not force me to upgrade my software, then the OS, then the PC,

Re: List of mirrors - help needed

2019-08-21 Thread Rafal Maszkowski
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 01:33:54PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: > On Mi, 21 Aug 2019, Bram Moolenaar wrote: … > > You can find the current list here: https://www.vim.org/mirrors.php > > I would like someone to take the current list, remove the links that no > > longer work, and find more https

Re: List of mirrors - help needed

2019-08-21 Thread Rafal Maszkowski
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 02:02:20PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Rafal Maszkowski wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 01:33:54PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > On Mi, 21 Aug 2019, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > … > > > > You can find the current list here: https://www.vim.org/mirrors.php > > >

Re: List of mirrors - help needed

2019-08-21 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Rafal Maszkowski wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 01:33:54PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > On Mi, 21 Aug 2019, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > … > > > You can find the current list here: https://www.vim.org/mirrors.php > > > I would like someone to take the current list, remove the links that no

Re: List of mirrors - help needed

2019-08-21 Thread Christian Brabandt
On Mi, 21 Aug 2019, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > The ftp protocol is slowly fading away. Still, we provide the Vim > sources through ftp. Many sites also support using http or https. The > list of mirrors is outdated now, and I would like to change the order to > put the https sites first. > >

List of mirrors - help needed

2019-08-21 Thread Bram Moolenaar
The ftp protocol is slowly fading away. Still, we provide the Vim sources through ftp. Many sites also support using http or https. The list of mirrors is outdated now, and I would like to change the order to put the https sites first. You can find the current list here: