trying out a cached copy of the JRE to address #5827 and others

benfry · benfry · commit 89a080814895 · 2020-09-14T20:11:06.000-04:00
diff --git a/build/jre/src/Downloader.java b/build/jre/src/Downloader.java
@@ -8,8 +8,13 @@
 
 /**
  * Ant Task for downloading the latest JRE or JDK from Oracle.
+ * This was used to set a cookie properly to retrieve a JRE.
+ * Nowadays the older versions have been removed from Oracle's site,
+ * so this is hard wired it to use download.processing.org instead.
  */
 public class Downloader extends Task {
+  static final boolean ORACLE_SUCKS = true;  // that's final
+
   static final String COOKIE =
     "oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie";
 
@@ -82,7 +87,6 @@ public void execute() throws BuildException {
       throw new BuildException("Starting with 8u121, a hash is required, see https://gist.github.com/P7h/9741922");
     }
 
-    //download(path, jdk, platform, bits, version, update, build);
     try {
       download();
     } catch (IOException e) {
@@ -111,6 +115,10 @@ void download() throws IOException {
       url += hash + "/";
     }
 
+    if (ORACLE_SUCKS) {
+      url = "https://download.processing.org/java/";
+    }
+
     // Finally, add the filename to the end
     url += filename;
 
diff --git a/todo.txt b/todo.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 0271 (3.5.5 unlikely)
+_ get the jre download to work by using a local copy
+X   https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/5827
+X   https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/5860
+_   https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/5942
+_   https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/6089
 
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