SourceForge's download links

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From: Leon Brocard
Subject: SourceForge's download links
Date: 14:48 on 03 Feb 2005
I think SourceForge is the only site that manages to get the simple
idea of letting people download files horribly wrong.

If I'm in a download section, and I click on a filename, it should let
me download the file. Not a very tricky concept to grasp, you might
think. Fairly simple UI design. See file. Click file. Get file.

But no, if I click on a file on SourceForget, I get a page saying "You
are requesting file: /foobar/quux-1.2.0.tar.gz. Please select a
mirror".

Errr, hello? No, I just want the file. I don't care if you have
mirrors, we have computers which can reasonably guess about mirrors
which might work for me.

So I hate it a bit, and then I click on a mirror. What does it do? Of
course I don't get the file, no, I get another page telling me what I
clicked on (errr, I know). And I have to wait 5 seconds for META
HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="5; URL=http://... to do its thing. Of
course, I almost never want to download to the computer my browser is
running on, so I abort that, copy the link and use wget.

Having to use SourceForge is hate enough, but two extra links for no
reason. HATE.

Leon

ps I did mean it about the previous hate, but I'm slowly recovering
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