Re: [libreoffice-website] Fixing broken links for previous LibreOffice releases

Hi,

On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 15:22:20 +0100, William Gathoye wrote:
> I just wanted to know whether TDF would be open to make a redirection rule
>
> * from https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/
> * to https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/
> * *for files that are not found at*
>   https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/ (see it
>   like a try_files in terms of NGINX)

That won't work without heavy changes to the download vhost, because the
version on download.documentfoundation.org is X.Y.Z, while the one on
downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org contains a point release number,
and the HTTPd doesn't know a priori which version to map to.

guilhem@download ~$ sha256sum libreoffice/stable/6.1.5*/win/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.1.5*_Win_x64.msi
812e01eaa790c8fa66c91254e9255ec494f22a92e8d18bfbe50486c842884289  
libreoffice/stable/6.1.5/win/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.1.5_Win_x64.msi

guilhem@downloadarchive ~$ sha256sum 
libreoffice/old/6.1.5*/win/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.1.5*_Win_x64.msi
48d4cafceb0ac9d5a3fdbbe0b77bf641027a1860880bf3da4e1ca003301b1ca1  
libreoffice/old/6.1.5.1/win/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.1.5.1_Win_x64.msi
812e01eaa790c8fa66c91254e9255ec494f22a92e8d18bfbe50486c842884289  
libreoffice/old/6.1.5.2/win/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.1.5.2_Win_x64.msi

So today stable/6.1.5 is old/6.1.5.2.  But the suffix isn't constant, so
we would need to maintain a map.  OTOH for fresh the filename contains
the point release, and we have redirections already (from archive to
main not the other way around):

    $ curl -sw"%{http_code} %{redirect_url}\\n" \
        -o/dev/null -r0-1024 
https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/6.2.2.1/win/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.2.2.1_Win_x64.msi
 \
        -o/dev/null -r0-1024 
https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/6.2.2.2/win/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.2.2.2_Win_x64.msi
    206 
    302 
https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/tdf/libreoffice/_testing_/6.2.2/win/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.2.2.2_Win_x64.msi

6.2.2.2 is present on the mirror network, so it's served from there.
OTOH 6.2.2.1 is served directly.

If you want specific versions, why not using https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org
instead of https://download.documentfoundation.org .  I suppose we could
add some redirects to stable too, to avoid serving still ourselves.

Cheers,
-- 
Guilhem.

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