bug report while installing

[Berkan Aktas]

Hey,
Windows 10 cmd:

with quotes:
C:\Users\berka>curl -Ls -o nul -w '%{url_effective}'
https://mirror.ctan.org/

'https://ctan.mirrors.hoobly.com/'

without quotes:
C:\Users\berka>curl -Ls -o nul -w %{url_effective} https://mirror.ctan.org/

https://mirror.las.iastate.edu/tex-archive/

Am So., 9. Mai 2021 um 22:29 Uhr schrieb Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at bitmuis.nl
>:

> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 04:16:45AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > Hi Siep, hi Uwe, hi Berkan, hi all,
> >
> > > TeX Live installer invocation:
> C:/Users/berka/AppData/Local/Temp/nsm9CC0.tmp/install-tl-20210508/install-tl
> -from_ext_gui
> > > Loading
> https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
> > > Installing TeX Live 2021 from:
> https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet (not verified)
> >
> > That is the problem, and this SHOULD NOT HAPPEN!!!
> >
> > When doing this on Linux, I see
> > $ ./install-tl -no-cls
> > Loading
> https://ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
> > Installing TeX Live 2021 from:
> https://ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet (verified)
> >
> > So I install from an actual mirror, while on Windows it seems to always
> > hit the main mirror.
>
> It does try a number of mirrors:
>
> D:querying mirror, got 'https://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/tex/'
> D:querying mirror, got 'https://mirror.koddos.net/CTAN/'
> D:querying mirror, got 'https://mirror.koddos.net/CTAN/'
> D:querying mirror, got 'https://mirror.lyrahosting.com/CTAN/'
> D:querying mirror, got 'https://mirror.koddos.net/CTAN/'
> D:no mirror found ... randomly selecting backbone
> Loading
> https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
>
> but is not happy with any of them.
>
> > And that one might have restrictions on access and block, thus the
> > failures.
> >
> > We need to investigate why the redirection code doesn't work on
> > Windows!!!
> >
> > Questions that can be answer by passing -v or -v -v to the installer:
> > * is it using wget or curl for computing the redirection?
> > * which curl is used?
> > * does curl work as expected? What does
> >       curl -Ls -o nul -w '%{url_effective}' https://mirror.ctan.org/
> >   give?
> >   (IDEA: the quotes might be a problem on Windows??? If the above fails,
> >   what does
> >       curl -Ls -o nul -w %{url_effective} https://mirror.ctan.org/
> >   give?)
>
> With both syntaxes, I get an actual mirror:
>
> C:\Users\siepo>curl -Ls -o nul -w '%{url_effective}'
> https://mirror.ctan.org/
> 'https://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/tex/'
> C:\Users\siepo>curl -Ls -o nul -w %{url_effective}
> https://mirror.ctan.org/
> https://mirror.lyrahosting.com/CTAN/
>
> For completeness, I attach the logfile.
>
> --
> Siep Kroonenberg
>
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