Re: Issue with downloading from php.net

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:24:44PM +0200, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > >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. > > Do you start from http://php.net/ when you download PHP? Yes. After a couple of clicks I end up at, say, http://us3.php.net/get/php-4.3.3.tar.bz2/from/a/mirror. It's from there that it'd be nice to see direct download URLs (if they're already there, and I'm missing them, my apologies, but I wasn't able to find anything). Cheers, Steve