254425 - static link to current releases

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 152212

(mozilla.org :: FTP: Staging, task)

Description

[u49640]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

maybe it would be a good idea to have a static link to the current releases like
<whatever>/releases/current/<AppName>-current.exe that redirects (throh http 302
or whatever the code is) to the real version with the correct filename.

with this other sites dont have to update links everytime a new Version is
released and all "customers" would allways get the current stable version. 

btw: i'm not shure if this is the correct category for this, but i hevent found
a better one

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Anne (:annevk)]

I like this idea. Who makes these descisions and can set it up?

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Considering the number of FTP mirrors we have and the low probability of getting
something consistent between them, probably nobody.

Comment 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

WONTFIX per comment 2.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

fwiw, we do have a download redirector in the process of being set up that will
be providing links like this.  In fact, we already used it during the Firefox
1.0 release for Firefox.

Comment 5

[u49640]

so you can have a static link to the current nightly that changes every day
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-win32-installer.exe
but not for the current release that changes every month or so?

could you please rethink the issue, maybe you misunderstood my Request

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

For what's being asked for, this is actually in the wrong component.  Let's let
the FTP folks make the call on it.  It doesn't need to be a 302 redirect, it
just needs to be a symlink on the filesystem (just like the latest-trunk
directory under nightly).  Someone just needs to remember to reset the symlink
every time we create a new release (which is going to be the hard part).

In the long term (hopefully this next week) we will have download.mozilla.org
functional, and it will have static links with 302 redirects to a
semi-randomly-chosen mirror proportionately picked based on the amount of
available bandwidth.

Comment 7

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152212 ***