Issue with downloading from php.net
| From: | Steve Atkins | Date: | Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:48:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Issue with downloading from php.net | ||
| Groups: | php.mirrors | ||
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Anyone installing PHP is likely to be doing so on a webserver. The odds are
that they aren't running X, or any GUI on that server at all. It's often
a colo server in a datacenter, accessed via ssh. There's no graphical
web browser running on that box.
Given that, the only reasonable way to download a distribution to that
box is using a command line tool such as curl. The php.net mirror site
chooser defeats that by refusing to divulge a working URL that can be
cut and pasted into another window.
It would be a nice enhancement to display a final download URL for each
mirror.
Cheers,
Steve