Apple/Safari being picky about redirects for CTAN mirrors
Mojca Miklavec
mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Wed May 1 08:04:20 CEST 2019
Hi,
I remember a different flavour of the problem being discussed recently
with respect to Chrome browsers & http/https.
Today I visited
http://tug.org/mactex/mactex-unix-download.html
and tried to download
http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
on that page, which apparently redirected to
ftp://ftp.gust.org.pl/TeX/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
But Safari greeted me with an error message:
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Safari can't open page
Safari can't open the page
ftp://ftp.gust.org.pl/TeX/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz:
The error is: "Redirection to URL with a schema that is not HTTP(S)"
(:0)
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Apparently redirecting http(s) to ftp will no longer be allowed for
security concerns.
Mojca
(PS: if any further testing is needed, I can [sadly] only do it until Saturday.)
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