r/Kiwix • u/j0j02357 • 17d ago

Query Kiwix base url referring to new subdomain?

How come https://library.kiwix.org/catalog/v2/entries now gives links back to https://lbo.download.kiwix.org/zim/ instead of https://download.kiwix.org/zim/?

Zims are available thru https://download.kiwix.org/zim/ still but the library wants to refer back to lbo.download.kiwix.org? is this a permanent change?

See https://github.com/jojo2357/kiwix-zim-updater/issues/56

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u/Peribanu 17d ago edited 17d ago

There are a number of changes that have been made and were mentioned in the now closed issue https://github.com/kiwix/operations/issues/522, although the underlying directories and structures have not been specified.

What I decided to do for the downloader in Kiwix PWA was to switch to using OPDS, but I've been chasing a moving target too. What I'm seeing is a redirect to https://opds.library.kiwix.org/catalog/v2 as the API for the OPDS catalogue, and that the links to the meta4 information files will be the method to derive information about mirrors, but that locations for download may still change.

It would be useful to have information about definitive locations, as I need to include entries in my Content Security Policy, and as the file targets keep changing, the downloader keeps getting blocked. I'll see if I can get some definitive information as to what the final targets are, as I need that too.

EDIT: see https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-pwa/issues/859