Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:
Is anyone else have trouble with links to CRAN, R, R-CRAN, etc. at
<ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/> ?
Curious. I fixed up those directories and restarted the ftp server on
the machine that serves as cvs.r-project.org. Now I can reach those
directories via an ftp client (ncftp) but not via a web browser
(netscape). I'm not sure why.
The same file system is available as
http://cran.us.r-project.org/
I would recommend using that URL instead of ftp://cvs.r-project.org/
for an http client. A less desirable alternative is to notice that
the names /pub/CRAN, /pub/R, and /pub/R-CRAN are all symbolic links to
/pub/e19/CRAN and to use
ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/e19/CRAN
I'm not sure why a web browser cannot follow the symbolic link but an
ftp client can. I would have thought this would be determined by the
server, not by the client. Can anyone suggest why the symbolic links
do not work for netscape?