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4 messages · Paul Gilbert, Douglas Bates, Peter Dalgaard +1 more

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Is anyone else have trouble with links to CRAN, R, R-CRAN, etc. at
<ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/> ?

Paul Gilbert
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Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:
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?
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Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:
No, and it appears to be Netscape-specific too. Mozilla follows the
links OK. (The form of the link - relative/absolute - appears to be
irrelevant, so my first guess was wrong.)
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i just checked with netscape 4.79 on win2k,
and i had no problem getting the directory listing of

ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/
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