So you want your own mirror of webOS Doctor files downloaded directly from the 'Palm' servers. The good news is that there are 54 files still available as of 24 Sept. 2017! These are all of the files from the webos-interals list with active links at: http://webos-internals.org/wiki/WebOS_Doctor_Versions
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine.
These scripts rely on wget and they are only tested on Linux where most
(all?) distributions include it. They might run on MacOS if wget has been
installed.
The full list of webOS Doctor jar files occupy 11.2GB of space, so choose a location with at least that amount of free space!
You will also need some time, it took me a little over 2 hours on 24 Sept 2017
CD to a spot where you want to create your mirror and clone this repo.
git clone https://github.com/bbito/webos-doctor-mirror-maker.git
Run these scripts from the terminal so you can see progress and errors.
Right-clicking a script and choosing Execute will run it, but you will not
see any progress or errors and have no easy way to kill the script. This
method is strongly discouraged.
Both scripts can produce the same results, but the script
"make-mirror-from-palm-domains" will only work if your /etc/hosts file has been
modified with:
195.22.200.42 downloads.help.palm.com
The script "make-mirror-from-palm-ips" should work whether or not the hosts
file has been altered.
After cloning the repo, cd into the "webos-doctor-mirror-maker" folder:
cd webos-doctor-mirror-maker
Then run your chosen script:
./make-mirror-from-palm-ips
or
./make-mirror-from-palm-domains
The chosen script will run showing progress and/or errors in the terminal.
It can be difficult to see how many Doctors have been downloaded so far from the active terminal, so you can also check progress with a new terminal opened inside your new "webosdoctor" folder with:
find -type f | wc -l
That will give you a count of files downloaded so far.
- Buck Bito - Initial work - bbito on Github
- List of URLs came from webos-internals, see: http://webos-internals.org/wiki/WebOS_Doctor_Versions
- Thanks to Herrie for making me wonder how to make making a mirror easy!