tickets #101191
closedget rid of FTP mirror urls?
Added by cboltz over 2 years ago. Updated 7 months ago.
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Description
Chrome 95 dropped support for FTP: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-95-Released
Firefox also dropped FTP support: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/04/15/built-in-ftp-implementation-to-be-removed-in-firefox-90/
Does it still make sense to keep the FTP urls in our mirror database, or should we drop them?
Updated by pjessen over 2 years ago
- Priority changed from Normal to Low
First thought - lack of browser support for ftp doesn't really have much impact for our mirrors.
Second thought - I don't think any mirror I have created in the last 4-5 years have had ftp support.
I would be tempted to say we can drop the ftp urls, but it's not exactly urgent.
Updated by pjessen almost 2 years ago
Have removed ftp url from mirror.isoc.org.il, it was inactive anyway.
Updated by pjessen almost 2 years ago
- Assignee changed from pjessen to andriinikitin
Updated by andriinikitin almost 2 years ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
This is obsolete after migration to MirrorCache
Updated by pjessen almost 2 years ago
- Status changed from Rejected to New
- Priority changed from Low to Normal
- % Done changed from 100 to 50
Uh, there is more involved than just ignoring the ftp urls :-)
a) amend the wiki page(s)
b) notify mirror operators (who had ftp) that we no longer will use ftp
c) optional - announcement? (I doubt if the users care much; but maybe the mirror operators list)
Updated by andriinikitin 9 months ago
@andriinikitin Is this page about Metalinks still valid at all? https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Metalink
Besides the first paragraph and outdated example all looks good. I am not sure where one can get metalink from software.o.o . Maybe we should replace first paragraph with instructions about hot to obtain metalink: one needs to add .meta4 or .metalink to file's url. (with an example). Or use corresponding link in .mirrorlist view of the file.
Updated by pjessen 9 months ago
crameleon wrote:
Thank you, updated as well.
notify mirror operators (who had ftp) that we no longer will use ftp
Any easy database query to find all needed email addresses? :-)
Surely that is a job for Andrii to do. In the old days, "mb show all" and a grep would do :-)
The wiki also needs loads of updates in this respect, but I guess it's all part of the mirrorcache project plan.
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mirror_howto
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mirror_infrastructure#Conditions_for_access_to_stage.opensuse.org
Btw, maybe someone ought to get rid of the references to the hotstuff modules?
Updated by pjessen 9 months ago
crameleon wrote:
I don't find any occurrences of "FTP" there.
Me neither, but it is full of all sorts of old outdated crud:
- rcapache2 restart; chkconfig -a apache2
- This example will use the "opensuse-hotstuff-160gb" module below.
- "redirector database" = www.mirrorbrain.org
I'm only saying it could do with a little bit of TLC. (unrelated to this ticket though).
Updated by andriinikitin 7 months ago
- Status changed from Workable to Rejected
It is true that browsers drop ftp, but other tools like wget, aria2c, probably zypper do support it, so I don't see enough motivation for this and will close this ticket.
(We can still drop ftp, if I missed anything or any other reason. We do want to show rsync urls - it should be easy to manage ftp urls as well).
I did import ftp and rsync links for the mirrors from mirrorbrain DB to the main instance and they are now shown in mirrors.opensuse.org .
I must add instructions to the wiki about how to manage those (in short - people with admin rights can do it in the mirror page, e.g. https://download.opensuse.org/app/server/opensuse.mirror.liquidtelecom.com (needs to be logged in)).