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[Judy Angel <J.Angel AT herts.ac.uk>]

Hi
Thank you for your prompt reply. We could dthe exe but as you say we will 
miss out on the updates.
Is there a way that you can create a soft link to a static file, so we 
point to the static file and that points to the file?

I am sure there are others that do or want to do the same as we do, to make 
it even easier to the end user by not having to select on the operating 
system.  I am aware it is not a huge burden but still proved useful to end 
users.

Thanks
Judy

--On 06 September 2013 07:58 +0200 Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu> 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > we are finding the cat tool very helpful and have customised the login
> > to the wireless to allow users to download the relevant installer to
> > their device. However we found out that the link had changed which made
> > our link defunct. For example
> >
> > WIN7
> > from 6ish aug 2013
> > https://cat.eduroam.org/downloads/e3a645efb554d5c0001ac16e60b5a97a/eduro
> > am-W7-UoH-.exe
> >
> > from 20ish aug 2013
> > https://cat.eduroam.org/downloads/02055780e4ff55a61c876620250e5d6e/eduro
> > am-W7-UoH-.exe
> >
> > Is it possible to 'fix' the url and make it reliable to point to?
>
> The directory names are so awkward because they are caches. When CAT
> gets updated with changes to actual installer code, all caches get
> purged and recreated on the next download click. The name of the cache
> directory changes as well.
>
> There are more conditions which would lead to changes, e.g. if you make
> a change to your IdP name, then the filename of the exe file itself
> would change, and no amount of care on our side would prevent that.
>
> So, in short, right now it's unreliable to deep-link directly to the
> transient exe. I would suggest to link to this:
>
> https://cat.eduroam.org/?idp=337&profile=487
>
> which avoids the discovery process and drops your users directly into
> the University of Hertfordshire download area. The Win 7 installer is
> then just one click away.
>
> Otherwise, you are of course invited to download the exe file yourself
> and put it on persistent storage such as your own helpdesk pages on your
> own webserver. Doing so will unfortunately mean you miss any updates to
> the installer code which might happen when the CAT code gets updated.
>
> I'll have a chat with my co-developer Tomasz to see if we can add a
> little more persistence to the download directory structure for version
> 1.1. The problem with name changes will always remain though.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stefan Winter
>
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