[Box-Admins] File server

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Thu May 19 16:25:22 UTC 2016


On Thu, 19 May 2016, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Hi all,
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> Tobias discovered that typing http://ftp.squeak.org/ into the address bar in Safari does not work anymore in OS X 10.11, it redirects to ftp://ftp.squeak.org, which fails.

What a great way to hide content from Safari users.

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> I filed a bug (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157894) but we should also use the occasion to fix this for good. We don’t need FTP anymore (and our FTP server hasn’t been online for quite a while).
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> So we just added http://files.squeak.org/ as an alternative, and are about to change all the download links on squeak.org to that.
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> Any objections/comments?

It sounds good to me. I think we talked about this before on a Board 
meeting, and it seemed to be a good idea back then, too.

Levente

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