Re: EPICS sequencer web page redirect problems

["Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

The APS “Common Support Modules" page at https://epics.anl.gov/modules/common.php also pointed to the same address, but those links should be to https://www-csr.bessy.de/control/SoftDist/sequencer/ which works for me (just change http: into https:).

It appears that the web-server's http redirector isn’t actually pointing to the https web-server, resulting in infinite loops.

I just fixed the http: links on the APS EPICS website, including the one above.

- Andrew

On Aug 25, 2021, at 3:25 PM, Kevin Peterson via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

The sequencer page:

 http://epics.web.psi.ch/software/sequencer/

Says the EPICS sequencer now lives here:

 http://www-csr.bessy.de/control/SoftDist/sequencer

But trying to access that page in firefox results in this error:

 The page isn’t redirecting properly

 Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

And attempting to wget the 2.2.9 release results in these errors:

 $ wget http://www-csr.bessy.de//control/SoftDist/sequencer/releases/seq-2.2.9.tar.gz
 --2021-08-25 15:16:43-- http://www-csr.bessy.de//control/SoftDist/sequencer/releases/seq-2.2.9.tar.gz
 Resolving www-csr.bessy.de (www-csr.bessy.de)... 193.149.12.250
 Connecting to www-csr.bessy.de (www-csr.bessy.de)|193.149.12.250|:80... connected.
 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
 Location: http://www-csr.bessy.de//control/SoftDist/sequencer/releases/seq-2.2.9.tar.gz [following]
 --2021-08-25 15:16:43-- http://www-csr.bessy.de//control/SoftDist/sequencer/releases/seq-2.2.9.tar.gz
 Reusing existing connection to www-csr.bessy.de:80.
 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
 Location: http://www-csr.bessy.de//control/SoftDist/sequencer/releases/seq-2.2.9.tar.gz [following]

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 --2021-08-25 15:16:45-- http://www-csr.bessy.de//control/SoftDist/sequencer/releases/seq-2.2.9.tar.gz
 Reusing existing connection to www-csr.bessy.de:80.
 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
 Location: http://www-csr.bessy.de//control/SoftDist/sequencer/releases/seq-2.2.9.tar.gz [following]
 20 redirections exceeded.

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