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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

I do not think such links are meant to be entered by hand, but rather to
be placed at some instruction pages, and then it does not really matter
how they look, as long as they are static.
Tomasz

  
W dniu 06.09.2013 15:02, José Manuel Macías pisze:
>
> 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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