1193072 - Update docs for ftp://ftp.mozilla.org going away

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Mozilla Platform, defect)

Description

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

ftp.mozilla.org is moving to AWS S3, here's the first blog about that:

https://blog.mozilla.org/it/2015/07/27/product-delivery-migration-what-is-changing-when-its-changing-and-the-impacts/

IT have now turned off ftp:// on ftp.mozilla.org, and in the near future the canonical domain will be archive.mozilla.org (replacing ftp.mozilla.org and releases.mozilla.org). The plan is also to drop the 'mozilla.org' part of the path. Putting that all together, urls like 
   ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
   http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
   https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
   http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
become 
   https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

There are probably many places that MDN needs to be updated for this. Here's one that I've done already:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Source_Code/Downloading_Source_Archives$compare?locale=en-US&to=899313&from=654247

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Will http(s)://ftp.mozilla.org redirect to archive eternally or will that be shut off someday? Similarly, will the "mozilla.org" part of the path redirect?

I ask because I'm trying to determine how urgent it is to change the URLs beyond the scheme; if we only need to change the scheme, there's much less work to be done.

Comment 2

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

See questions in comment #1.

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I think non-ftp urls will continue to work, but lets ask oremj to be sure.

Comment 4

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

For now, non-ftp urls will continue to function.

Comment 5

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Sheppy, what's the status of this? It was supposed to be fixed months ago! We had it as an action item at the top of our team meeting for weeks until it was removed as done.

Comment 7

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

This is an old bug now. Most issues are likely to have been fixed already but I ran a google search of '"ftp://ftp.mozilla.org" site:developer.mozilla.org' to verify, and updated https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/JSS/4_3_ReleaseNotes. There are still a lot of http(s)://ftp.mozilla.org references, but I don't think we're going to fix that, or ever turn off the DNS that makes it work.