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[José Manuel Macías <jmanuel.macias AT rediris.es>]

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I wonder if tricking the server to rewrite the URLs to something more
"readable" would be desirable... I mean, something like the solution
described in this answer:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13007938/htaccess-convert-a-url-parameter-in-folders/13008556#13008556

This way, the link:

https://cat.eduroam.org/download.php?idp=337&profile=487&generatedfor=user&device=apple_lion

Could be translated for instance into something like this:

https://cat.eduroam.org/download/apple_lion/profile/487/generatedfor/user/from/idP/337


cheers,

jose.

El 06/09/13 14:32, Stefan Winter escribió:
> Hi,
> 
>> Clearly you did not get enough sleep :).
> 
> That may well be true :-)
> 
>> Of course we do have a way to deeplink installer which is
>> independent of the cache mechanism. You are using it yourself for
>> administrators downloads :).
>> 
>> The magic link direct link is: 
>> https://cat.eduroam.org/download.php?idp=337&profile=487&generatedfor=user&device=apple_lion
>
>> 
> Wow. Are you sure that's my code? Anyway, cool :-)
> 
> You can apparently even add "&lang=fr" and analogous to get the 
> installer in different languages.
> 
> Well, this needs to be documented in any case. It doesn't help much
> if the URL is only known to a subset of the two core developers
> ;-)
> 
> How about putting a small link besides the download button which 
> contains the magic URL, like
> 
> (direct link)
> 
> in very small font for those who care?
> 
>> However I would suggest that you might also use: 
>> https://cat.eduroam.org/basic.php?page=5&idp=337&country=uk&lang=en&profile=487&device=vista
>>
>>
>> 
This will display some important information to your user before the
>> download.
> 
> Well, this will always open the smartphone-optimised basic.php,
> which looks ... basic. Not very appealing on real laptops.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Stefan Winter

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