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[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 12 November 2009, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Thursday 12 November 2009, John Ralls wrote:
> > The magic link is:
> > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash%20OSX%20Read
> >me .html
> >
> > That will magically find the best (or user's default, if he's got a
> > sourceforge account and has it set up) mirror and doesn't flash the
> > mirror screen. It works equally well for the binaries, so the user
> > will just get the "download destination" dialog box and will stay on
> > the Gnucash page.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
>
> Very nice !
>
> Where appropriate, I have changed the links to use your magic formula.
>
> Unfortunatly, it seems sourceforge is having some issues right now: I can't
> connect to any part of it. So I can't validate the links yet.
>
> If someone else has more luck connecting to SF, let me know if the links
> work.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
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Sourceforge is working again, so I tested these new links.

They work fine, but there is some weirdness going on with the mirror screen.

When I click on a link on my new download page, I see the mirror screen 
flashing in between. But when I copy a link from the download page, open a new 
browser window, paste the link and then hit enter, there's no mirror screen 
flashing. When I click on the link in the email you sent, it won't flash the 
mirror screen. But in all three cases the link used is exactly the same.

So to me it seems sourceforge is treating redirects differently based on the 
referrer link in the html header or it's using some cookie magic. And that's 
something out of my control.

Can you test this as well ?

Geert