Re: Issue with downloading from php.net

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:59:16PM +0200, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > > > > Yes. After a couple of clicks I end up at, say, > > > > > > http://us3.php.net/get/php-4.3.3.tar.bz2/from/a/mirror. It's > > > from > > > there that it'd be nice to see direct download URLs (if they're already > > > there, and I'm missing them, my apologies, but I wasn't able to find > > > anything). > > > > You needed to make a few clicks to get to here, so I don't know what is > > the problem with this page. One of the first few links on the page > > points to a place where you can get the file. It is not a direct > > location to the file, but wget should be able to handle that. > > His point is that he wants to "see" the URL, not click on it. I don't > think it will be much work to do a print on the url, right? That's not really it - I'm generally going to be right-clicking on the link, copying the URL to the clipboard then pasting it into a terminal session on a different system. The thing is that many commandline http fetch clients do just that, fetch a file. If that file redirects to a different URL they don't follow that redirection. So, for example, if the visible URL is http://us2.php.net/get/php-4.3.3.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror and that redirects to http://us2.php.net/distributions/php-4.3.3.tar.bz2 the URL that it would be useful to be able to copy would be the latter. If I try and use, say, curl to fetch the former I'll just get the redirection page. It's a nit, but one that I suspect hits quite a lot of your users. I wouldn't have mentioned it except for the fact that the rest of the php.net site hangs together so nicely, and it's the only exception. Cheers, Steve