Re: Xcode 1.1 Tools update
Re: Xcode 1.1 Tools update
- Subject: Re: Xcode 1.1 Tools update
- From: Rob Lockstone <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:27:08 -0800
I just played around with this and figured out how to use Transmit, or
presumably any ftp program, to download from the ADC site.
1. Your login is your "Person Number". Which you can find at the top of
any of the ADC pages when you're logged in.
Aside: Person Number? That's kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? :-)
2. You can find your password by initiating a download from the ADC
page. You'll see a URL that's formatted something like this:
ftp://NNNNN:email@hidden/blahblahblah
NNNNN is your Person Number.
XXXXX is your password.
3. In your ftp program, like Transmit, use imercury5.apple.com as the
server and use standard ftp as the protocol as opposed to secure ftp.
It may be that your password is dynamically generated and is only good
for a certain period of time. And, presumably, the imercury5 hostname
could also change. So you may have to go through the above process each
time you want to download software from ADC using this method. But,
when it's a big download like Xcode or WebObjects or something, then
it's probably worth it.
Rob
On Dec 21, 2003, at 22:50, Denis Stanton wrote:
On Monday, December 22, 2003, at 05:19 PM, Prachi Gauriar wrote:
Just for the record, it worked wonderfully for me. I downloaded
three parts at a time at around 20k/sec each on a cable connection.
It took a few hours, but the process was smooth. I just queued them
all up in Transmit <http://www.panic.com/transmit/> and let it run.
Hi Prachi,
you had a much better download experience than me. Obviously one of
the reasons was that you have a cable connection, but you also say
that you used Transmit.
I'm showing my ignorance here, but I realise I don't know how I could
have obtained these files through an ftp utility. I've downloaded
Transmit on your suggestion, but I don't see how to use it in this
case.
To get the Xcode files I went to the ADC Download Software page and
clicked a Download button. Sometime this gives a message "Could not
open the page ...... server is busy". If I keep trying the server
directory will eventually mount in Panther. then I select one of the
23 files and drag it to my local disk. if I try to do anything else,
like select a second file, I'll have to go through a slow motion stage
of spinning pizzas before I can make a second selection. making more
than one selection almost guarantees a broken connection at some point
during the download hour(s)
So how would I insert Transmit into this process? I don't see any
obvious server address, although of course I know one is being used to
mount the server. If I copy the address that shows in the error
message I still have to answer the other questions, like user name,
password, initial path and port. Where do I find these values for an
ADC download? I've always just clicked on the page, but for this
Xcode download things have changed.
I should know this stuff. I've used Fetch for many years, but not
often. I'm just a bit confused because I don't see the information
that would be required to request an ftp download.
Denis
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