(Sorry for posting here but the top-level r-forge page does not make it all that clear where to contact its admins.) When an old-style 'http' URL at r-forge is resolved / redirected to 'https', it is corrupted and the redirect breaks. That required a package re-upload for me a few days ago (as the CRAN url checker is unhappy about a borked URL) and you can see it live too e.g. via https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel and going to 'rcpp-devel archives' where the hover URL is (note 'http') http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcpp-devel/ which when followed 'naively' drops the / between .org and pipermail and gets a 404 https://lists.r-forge.r-project.orgpipermail/rcpp-devel/ Reinjecting the missing / helps as https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcpp-devel/ works fine. This is likely a typo / error in the redirection setup of the web server. I would be very grateful if someone could pass this on to whoever looks after r-forge these days. Best, Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
Dirk, I have not use R-Forge in years, but on the main page (https://r-forge.r-project.org), just before the blue "Latest News" box, it shows: "If you experience any problems or need help you can submit a support request to the R-Forge team or write an email to R-Forge at R-Project.org." I have copied that e-mail address here. The URL for the support request form requires a login to R-Forge to access. Also, there appears to be a top level project associated with the R-Forge Admins here: https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/site/ with references to the project members in the upper right hand corner. No activity from the Admins there since December 2020, from what I can tell... Regards, Marc Schwartz Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote on 7/19/21 4:03 PM:> > (Sorry for posting here but the top-level r-forge page does not make it all > that clear where to contact its admins.) > > When an old-style 'http' URL at r-forge is resolved / redirected to 'https', > it is corrupted and the redirect breaks. That required a package re-upload > for me a few days ago (as the CRAN url checker is unhappy about a borked URL) > and you can see it live too e.g. via > > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel > > and going to 'rcpp-devel archives' where the hover URL is (note 'http') > > http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcpp-devel/ > > which when followed 'naively' drops the / between .org and pipermail and > gets a 404 > > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.orgpipermail/rcpp-devel/ > > Reinjecting the missing / helps as > > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcpp-devel/ > > works fine. This is likely a typo / error in the redirection setup of the > web server. > > I would be very grateful if someone could pass this on to whoever looks after > r-forge these days. > > Best, Dirk >
Dear Dirk, Thank you for your feedback. There was a misconfigured redirection indeed. It should work well now. The top page does say "If you experience any problems or need help you can submit a support request to the R-Forge team or write an email to R-Forge at R-Project.org. Thanks... and enjoy the site." But I`ll put it on the list of improvements anyway, to make the contact options more visible. Best, Gennadiy. On 19.07.21 22:03, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:> (Sorry for posting here but the top-level r-forge page does not make it all > that clear where to contact its admins.) > > When an old-style 'http' URL at r-forge is resolved / redirected to 'https', > it is corrupted and the redirect breaks. That required a package re-upload > for me a few days ago (as the CRAN url checker is unhappy about a borked URL) > and you can see it live too e.g. via > > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel > > and going to 'rcpp-devel archives' where the hover URL is (note 'http') > > http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcpp-devel/ > > which when followed 'naively' drops the / between .org and pipermail and > gets a 404 > > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.orgpipermail/rcpp-devel/ > > Reinjecting the missing / helps as > > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcpp-devel/ > > works fine. This is likely a typo / error in the redirection setup of the > web server. > > I would be very grateful if someone could pass this on to whoever looks after > r-forge these days. > > Best, Dirk >