Re: [xml] Windows Binaries And The Web

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

Bruce Miller wrote:
> Rich Salz wrote:
>
> > Can you implement a tomcat filter that looks to see if someone is asking
> > for the "latest" version and if so send them an http redirect?
>
> Nice suggestion! I like that idea.
> The usual approach of foo-latest.tar.gz symlinks is annoying
> in that you end up with tarballs in your filesystem whose versioning
> info is embedded inside.  It adds steps to figure out whether it _is_
> the latest, what version it is, what version is installed, etc.
>
> The downside is that, unless the redirect is sufficiently smart,
> you've got to change the redirect in a server config, rather than
> changing symlinks or editting html...

That wouldn't be a problem, I can program a filter specifically for this 
purpose. But, as I said, that won't cover FTP and FTP should work as 
well, possibly with the same URL, save for the scheme.

> Another alternative --- if the source of the original links is under
> your control --- would be to simply provide a link to the _directory_
> /pub/libxml, rather than the individual files, and let the user
> collect up all the current ones.

Those are foreign sites, the source of those links is never under my 
control.

Ciao,
Igor