CRAN links

[Erich Neuwirth]

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/





Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> 
> Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> 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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