Steve Rowe created SOLR-7413:
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Summary: Website: downloading past releases is harder than it
should be
Key: SOLR-7413
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7413
Project: Solr
Issue Type: Bug
Components: website
Reporter: Steve Rowe
Assignee: Steve Rowe
Priority: Minor
Clicking on the "Download" button at the top of every Solr website page takes
you to [http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html] (let's
call it the download-redirect page), which pauses for 3 seconds and then
auto-redirects to the Apache download mirror page for the latest Solr release.
The download-redirect page has info about downloading past releases, but there
are problems with the current setup:
# The 3 second auto-redirect doesn't allow enough time to read the page before
it's gone.
# Firefox (latest version, on OS X and Windows) doesn't include the page in its
browser history, so you can't go back - clicking the back button will take you
to the page you were on when you clicked the "Download" button, not back to the
download-redirect page.
# Internet Explorer and Chrome include the download-redirect page in their
history, so you clicking the back button will go there, but then after three
seconds you get redirected to the Apache download mirrors page, whack-a-mole
style.
When I was putting this page together, I guess I only tested on Safari on OS X
10.10. This browser keeps the download-redirect page in its history, so
clicking the back button after the auto-redirect takes you to the mirror pages
will take you back to the download-redirect page, and the auto-redirect never
recurs.
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