[asterisk-users] issues with downloads.digium.com

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <fg4meh$iql$1 at softins.clara.co.uk>,
Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <20071029102317.GC6765 at xorcom.com>,
> Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> > As you can see, that script doesn't really redirect. It does not point
> > me to the new file name. If I use a web browser, I still get the
> > illusion of a directory tree,
> 
> If you get the body too, you will see that it is actually an HTML page
> with a lot of embedded JavaScript. It is the JavaScript that makes the
> browser load the target page. It appears to be part of a package from
> a company called Eloqua (www.eloqua.com).
> 
> > but this breaks any decent attempt of
> > mirroring downloads.d.o . It also breaks downloads with wget.
> 
> I suspect that this is an intentional design decision in the Eloqua
> package, and probably desired by some of Eloqua's customers.
> 
> Whether it is an appropriate package to be used by Digium to serve
> open-source content is another matter altogether....

Does anyone from Digium want to comment on why this Eloqua stuff has been
used, instead of just allowing Apache to serve the directory tree directly?
And whether this decision might be reconsidered?

Cheers
Tony
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