From: René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-05-07 21:15:33
On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 4:11 PM Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:
> 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.
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