On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 4:11 PM Peter Dimov via Boost
Peppard wrote:
It would be nice if Boost could provide more persistent download URLs, as such changes can mess up automated downloads (scripts, Dockerfiles, ...).
On one hand, it does seem useful to provide e.g.
download.boost.org/boost-1.76.0/boost_1_76_0.7z
as a redirect.
On the other, we already have problems with spiders mirroring the entire boost.org site along with all the downloads, and these problems may be exacerbated by moving the URLs to boost.org (as they would be on the same domain then.)
But with a redirector you could bounce such spiders at the early redirector point. -- -- René Ferdinand Rivera Morell -- Don't Assume Anything -- No Supone Nada -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net