A Suggestion about your China CDN

[BROBIRD]

Expected Behavior

An automated redirection from https://services.gradle.org/distributions/<something>.zip or https://downloads.gradle.org/distributions/<something>.zip to China CDN https://downloads.gradle-dn.com/distributions/<something>.zip

Current Behavior

Just a Cloudflare CDN, very slow in China.

Context

I think it's better to redirect the download links to China CDN for users in China.
Cloudflare provides a function named IP Geolocation, so I think you can set some redirect rules using the header CF-IpCountry so that we users will not need to modify the file gradle\wrappers\gradle-wrapper.properties or download the .zip files manually.

I think there are two options:

0. Configure redirection rules on your original server.
1. Use the Workers function provided by Cloudflare.

example code:

addEventListener('fetch', event => {
event.respondWith(handleRequest(event.request))
})

async function handleRequest(request) {
  let url = new URL(request.url)
  if (url.pathname == "/") {
    let country = request.headers.get("CF-IpCountry")
    if(country=="CN"){
      url.host = "test.example.com"
    }
    return Response.redirect(url, 302)
  }
}

[wusatosi]

agree!

[ldaley]

The redirect was not in place due to a regression. It is now fixed. Please try again.

[wusatosi]

The redirect was not in place due to a regression. It is now fixed. Please try again.

I can confirm the redirect and downloads.gradle-dn.com is working and serving within China!

The cache is cold though, I think Cloudflare will handle it soon 😄

Thanks for the excellent work

[ldaley]

Thanks for confirming.

[wusatosi]

Thanks for confirming.

Thanks for you guys' great work