[Ethan]

Am I doing something wrong? I never use this for my SS server, am I supposed to use this for something? cheers guys

https://mirrors.slickstack.io

[Linda]

good question, I don’t know either.

so far no problems lol

[Kyle]

The mirror subdomain was used a few years back for all URLs in ss-functions for SlickStack to retrieve the core scripts and module config boilerplates for… but we discovered that GitHub Pages is not very scalable so we changed to using raw.githubusercontent.com URLs instead for all those requests for better scaling and shorter cache validity.

[Christian]

SlickStack still references the “mirror” URLs in the script headers though, because they are more human-readable and easier to remember and bookmark for easy reference.

But it’s the same exact content as the default GitHub view, and the “raw” view too.

[Dylan]

E.g. These are the same content:

https://mirrors.slickstack.io/crons/01-cron-often.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/master/crons/01-cron-often.txt

But this URL pattern uses the GitHub UI, so you can’t wget it:

https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/crons/01-cron-often.txt

[Jennifer]

Fun fact

You can wget the non-HTTPS version via mirrors subdomain:

http://mirrors.slickstack.io/crons/01-cron-often.txt

…but the “raw” URI cannot.

[Ruth]

SlickStack has noindexed the entire mirrors subdomain now to avoid duplicate content issues, just FYI better to search the GitHub repo if you’re using Google.

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