Problems installing iSphere, Rapid Fire, iRPGUnit and JCRCMDS in RDi 9.8

Hello All,

Unfortunately the iSphere update site is broken, so that you cannot install or update iSphere from the Eclipse Marketplace or the iSphere Update site. It also does not help to use the http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ url.

The problem is, that Eclipse no longer allows switching the protocol from https to http. See here:

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c5fh-3q27-g4r5

Newer Eclipse version provide the "p2.httpAction" configuration property to overrule that limitation. See here (if I understood that correctly):

https://github.com/eclipse-equinox/p2/issues/230

Unfortunately there is no way that I know how to make Rational Developer for I 9.8 to accept switching the http protocol.

For those how are interested, here is what happens (tested with Postman):

Starting point:
https://isphere.sourceforge.io/eclipse/rdi8.0/content.jar

302:
http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/isphere/eclipse/rdi8.0/content.jar


301:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/isphere/eclipse/rdi8.0/content.jar

302:
http://altushost-swe.dl.sourceforge.net/project/isphere/eclipse/rdi8.0/content.jar

200:
Content delivered

So all I can suggest for the moment is to download the zipped update site from SourceForge and install iSphere from it.

Of course not only iSphere is effected by that problem, but also all my projects that are hosted on SourceForge:


* iSphere (Frank Hildebrandt and Thomas Raddatz)

* Rapid Fire (Frank Hildebrandt and Thomas Raddatz)

* iRPGUnit (Mihael Schmidt and Thomas Raddatz)

* JCRCMDS (Craig Rutledge andThomas Raddatz)

Looks like it requires a new update server. Any ideas?

Regards,

Thomas.