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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Mirrors and links

download.eclipse.org, for example, does not permit apache (anonymous
web users) to follow symlinks. (Trust me, I've tried, opened a bug,
and been WONTFIXed for security reasons.) You can symlink the
filesystem to your heart's content, but only the actual path can be
found via the website. Note that
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/path/with/symlinks/to/file
also doesn't work.

Cheers,

Nick

On 7/4/07, Markus Knauer <mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Thomas,

a few weeks ago I thought about a similar thing; in principle it should work,
at least the symbolic link will be mirrored by the rsync script to all of the
mirror.

But the problem is the webserver (or ftp server) configuration. Our mirror
would allow such a symbolic link, but you never can be sure that other
mirrors have such a user-friendly (insecure?) configuration.

Markus



On Wednesday 04 July 2007 15:16, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Hi,
> We have one update site where we maintain 3.2.x compatible versions of
> Buckminster and one where we release for Eclipse 3.3.x. I would like to
> have a layout that involves a symbolic link:
>
> 3.2/updates
> 3.3/updates
> updates -> 3.3/updates (or whatever is current)
>
> will such a link be mirrored correctly to the download sites?
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren
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