Unofficial parts once again being redirected to https
2024-01-20, 2:33 (This post was last modified: 2024-01-20, 2:34 by Travis Cobbs.)
2024-01-20, 2:33 (This post was last modified: 2024-01-20, 2:34 by Travis Cobbs.)
LDView's unofficial parts downloading is once again broken due to the http URLs being redirected to https. For example, I debugged an attempt to download the following URL in LDView:
The response was a 301 "moved permanently" response with the following new URL:
This happened not too long ago and got fixed, so hopefully it can be fixed again.
Note: supporting https in a cross-platform fashion is not remotely easy, and I'm pretty sure that doing so with a third-party library such as curl also requires constant application updates to continue to function over time (updating the root certificates that the application trusts).
Code:
http://www.ldraw.org/library/unofficial/parts/s/3817cpy4s01.datThe response was a 301 "moved permanently" response with the following new URL:
Code:
https://www.ldraw.org/library/unofficial/parts/s/3817cpy4s01.datThis happened not too long ago and got fixed, so hopefully it can be fixed again.
Note: supporting https in a cross-platform fashion is not remotely easy, and I'm pretty sure that doing so with a third-party library such as curl also requires constant application updates to continue to function over time (updating the root certificates that the application trusts).