Apple/Safari being picky about redirects for CTAN mirrors

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hi,

On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 10:27, Petra Ruebe-Pugliese wrote:
>
> For the time being and as a workaround:  What alternatives to
> Safari does your Mac offer?

Just to make it clear: I'm not having any issue with that myself. I
can easily find a workaround, and even Safari has no problem
downloading that file provided that you explicitly call it with a
"ftp://" prefix.

Another clarification: this is only a problem in specific geographic
locations where the mirror would point to ftp. I never configured our
mirror for ftp files, so I never hit that problem at home.

What I'm worried about is other users that might be stuck when they
hit such an error.

Mojca

> On Wed 01 May 2019 at 08:04:20 +0200  Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > 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:
> >
> > --------------
> > 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)
> > --------------
> >
> > 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.)