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amaxwell / tlutility

TeX Live Utility, a Mac OS GUI for the TeX Live Manager
http://amaxwell.github.io/tlutility/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Should concertpass.com be a ctan mirror? #62

Closed paulmromer closed 6 years ago

paulmromer commented 6 years ago

Today, Tex Live Utility tried to connect with an unfamiliar mirror, "concertpass.com." This seemed unusual. I expect only academic and non-profit hosts.

One page shows that it is a mirror:

https://ctan.org/mirrors/mirmon

I have attached a screen capture of the part of the page which lists it:

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A second page does not:

https://ctan.org/mirrors?lang=en#North%20America

If it is, indeed, a valid mirror, can you tell me what information, if any, this site might collect if Tex Live were to connect to it?

amaxwell commented 6 years ago

TeX Live Utility's mirror list is generated by parsing the CTAN sites list at Dante:

http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/CTAN.sites

There are quite a few .com mirrors, including concertpass, and I have no idea what any of them collect from your http requests.