List of mirrors - help needed

[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list of mirrors is outdated now, and I would like to change the order to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: 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 links. I susped quite of few of the
http links also support https, but that needs to be tried, and the
domain might be different to match the certificate.

For example, the main site is linked to with ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/
but is also available as http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/
and https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/vim/

Is there someone who can take care of this, and send me to cleaned up
list?


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[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 list of mirrors is outdated now, and I would like to change the order to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.
>
> 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 links. I susped quite of few of the
> http links also support https, but that needs to be tried, and the
> domain might be different to match the certificate.
>
> For example, the main site is linked to with ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/
> but is also available as http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/
> and https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/vim/
>
> Is there someone who can take care of this, and send me to cleaned up
> list?

Let me take care of this.

Best,
Christian
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[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
> > > longer work, and find more https links. I susped quite of few of the
> > > http links also support https, but that needs to be tried, and the
> > > domain might be different to match the certificate.

> …

> > > Is there someone who can take care of this, and send me to cleaned up
> > > list?
> > Let me take care of this.
>

> Our site (Poland, Warsaw, ICM) is listed as
> ftp://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/ only. The complete set of our protocols
> is:
>
> ftp://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/
> http://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/
> https://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/
> rsync://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/
> gopher://ftp.pl.vim.org/1/pub/vim/
>
> The main name of the site is ftp.icm.edu.pl or sunsite.icm.edu.pl.

Typical case of where the https link doesn't work with the vim.org
domain. This one does work: https://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/vim/

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[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 links. I susped quite of few of the
> > http links also support https, but that needs to be tried, and the
> > domain might be different to match the certificate.

…

> > Is there someone who can take care of this, and send me to cleaned up
> > list?
> Let me take care of this.

Our site (Poland, Warsaw, ICM) is listed as
ftp://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/ only. The complete set of our protocols
is:

ftp://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/
http://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/
https://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/
rsync://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/
gopher://ftp.pl.vim.org/1/pub/vim/

The main name of the site is ftp.icm.edu.pl or sunsite.icm.edu.pl.

R.
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[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
> > > > I would like someone to take the current list, remove the links that no
> > > > longer work, and find more https links. I susped quite of few of the
> > > > http links also support https, but that needs to be tried, and the
> > > > domain might be different to match the certificate.
> > …
> > > > Is there someone who can take care of this, and send me to cleaned up
> > > > list?
> > > Let me take care of this.
> > Our site (Poland, Warsaw, ICM) is listed as
> > ftp://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/ only. The complete set of our protocols
> > is:
> > ftp://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/
> > http://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/
> > https://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/
> > rsync://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/
> > gopher://ftp.pl.vim.org/1/pub/vim/
> > The main name of the site is ftp.icm.edu.pl or sunsite.icm.edu.pl.
> Typical case of where the https link doesn't work with the vim.org
> domain. This one does work: https://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/vim/

Sorry for that. Now it works.

[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, simply to keep abrest with the constant development
of new protocols and APIs. I can access FTP archives with
the same software that I used twenty years ago, which will
continue to work in another twenty years. A stable
data-exchage protocol is a blessing.

> I would like someone to take the current list, remove the
> links that no longer work, and find more https links.

Many https: links no longer work for me in Windows XP. Is
there any reason for providing public software via HTTPS?

Anyway, please keep the FTP and HTTP mirrors, in addition
to the HTTPS ones.

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[Bram Moolenaar]

Nothing is going away, we just cleaned up the list and put https and
http first, because that's what most people prefer to use. Quite a few
people prefer the secure connection, but it indeed has many more
dependencies.

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111. You and your friends get together regularly on IRC, even though
all of you live in the same city.

[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 (https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/faq.html#download)
useful for ftp simplicity retrieving http and https URLs.

- George

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[Richard Mitchell]

On Saturday, August 24, 2019 at 1:24:52 PM UTC-4, Bram Moolenaar wrote:

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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" or at most "block".

Isn't IRC old?  Guess things have changed since then.