Andrea Pescetti wrote:
Peter Pöml wrote:
Hi Andrea and Peter,
should we maybe rewrite such requests automatically? mod_rewrite (the Apache web server's Swiss Army knife) has tools for that; it can check if the file is exists, and if not, try the alternative filename, and depending on that it could automatically rewrite the URL to the working one.
I think this would be very helpful. Linux Debian and Mac OS have traditionally no JRE builds but the website is offering such builds until the user is manually unchecking the JRE option.
And when we come to the several platforms and languages were we have really a colored mix of JRE and non-JRE builds, then it is getting much worse.
The JRE option on the website is done with JS magic. Not the best solution but IMHO at the moment the only one.
That would be very welcome: we (the Italian N-L Project) do not approve all with/without JRE versions, and this fallback mechanism would help a lot.
+1
Every Italian Linux user visiting, for example, http://download.openoffice.org/index.html is now being redirected to download a build that does not exist since we haven't approved it yet; while with this mechanism in place, he would get the non-JRE version which we did approve.
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