From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] hget'ing from a cdn
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 22:07:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSxfmLc9Za4w+idbcKLG2OcSrdqEkT2T9L1VMw8O+jAuTcP-Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSxfmKJfQiS3=icvjNBo+1Yv9LL-71m506GJuGK3XrOgDucQQ@mail.gmail.com>
i use hurl:
% hurl https://mirror.ctan.org/tds/packages.zip > xyz.zip
https://go.dev/play/p/v6Ludjnzyg_L
On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 8:55 PM Skip Tavakkolian
<skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Use a client written in Go?
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022, 12:53 PM <tlaronde@polynum.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Pkg in kerTeX are created by processing and first retrieving files using
>> hget(1) for http served files.
>>
>> The main TeX repository is CTAN. Now, there is an address:
>> mirrors.ctan.org (http/https), that is in fact redirecting dynamically
>> to various mirrors (this changes almost on any invocation).
>>
>> There is a difference in implementation between Plan9 legacy and 9front,
>> hget(1) being, if I'm not mistaken, a binary in Plan9 legacy, and a rc
>> script in 9front.
>>
>> The problem is that the redirection is not handled at least by one of
>> these and I have to keep a static cache on my website server to mirror
>> the files so that users can use the downloads.kergis.com/kertex/
>> (http/https) address instead to circumvent the problem.
>>
>> Is there a way to make it work ideally on both flavors, so that the
>> pkg/recipes are indeed "live" taking whatever is current on CTAN using
>> whatever mirror?
>>
>> TIA,
>> --
>> Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
>> http://www.kergis.com/
>> http://kertex.kergis.com/
>> http://www.sbfa.fr/
>> Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C
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2022-07-08 19:51 tlaronde
2022-07-09 3:55 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2022-07-09 5:07 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2022-07-09 6:17 ` tlaronde
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