Hello Marcus, *,
Am Tuesday 10 March 2009 20:36:51 schrieb Marcus Lange:
> Thomas Hackert wrote:
> > Am Tuesday 10 March 2009 16:43:32 schrieb Marcus Lange:
> >> Thomas Hackert wrote:
> >>> Am Wednesday 25 February 2009 16:07:08 schrieb Marcus Lange:
> >>>> Thomas Hackert wrote:
> >>>>> Am Wednesday 25 February 2009 12:51:07 schrieb Marcus Lange:
> >>>>>> Thomas Hackert wrote:
> >>> well, then I think that - for some reason - JS gets this
> >>> information wrong. I am using a Germanophone IceWeasel
> >>> (a.k.a. Firefox) under Debian with preferred languages de-DE,
> >>> de, en-GB and loads of others. Interestingly I would get the
> >>> RPMs, if I click on the "Developer Build..." link ... :(
> >>> I am neither use a proxy nor any anomizer like TOR ... ;)
> >>
> >> you are using a deb-based OS but want to download rpm files.
> >> How should the one-
> >
> > where have I written, that I want to download RPMs? If I click
> > on
>
> in the paragraph about: "Interestingly ...". At least I've
> understood it this way.
maybe I should have written "Interestingly I got ..." or the
like ... ;) But as I have stopped the download immediately, I
thought it was the right wording and case here ... ;) As I am not a
native speaker of English, it is sometimes difficult to communicate
with others in an language, which is not your native language.
> > the link to download it from the .../next site, I got for some
> > reason the RPM ... :( It seems to have something to do with
> > this bouncer stuff, where I am not acquainted with .... :(
>
> It has nothing to do with Bouncer itself. Only with the technic
> that identifies the language and OS from the browser to create
> the respective URL. This will link to the Bouncer database but
> could also link to something different.
O.K.
> >> click-download technic recognize this? Because of
> >> the data that the browser is delivering to the JS script, it
> >> will be decided to offer deb files.
> >
> > Alas I do not have the possibility to tell the bouncer, that I
> > am not using an RPM based distro but an Debian system ... :(
>
> We will try to modify the JS file to recognize if the user is
> using a Debian-based system or not, to be able to offer deb
> packages or rpm. But I cannot promise that this could work.
This would be a nice feature. I hope it is possible to implement
this feature.
> There is related discussion on the relea...@ooo mailing list.
Alas I have not the spare time to subscribe to another ML ... :(
> >> Of course you can (maybe) tweak the user agent data that the
> >> browser is sending to reach your goal. But then probably you
> >> will have problems on other websites.
> >
> > For that reason I am not using any masquerading and/or
> > something like TOR, proxies or the like ... :(
>
> AFAICS this is related.
Why?
> >> I'm sorry but I think there is no solution for your case. ;-)
> >
> > Sorry to hear ... :( Thanks for your answer anyway :) Just out
> > of interest: Would there be a discussion about the name or is
> > it now written "in stone"? Like Joost I would prever something
> > different, but seem to have missed a discussion or there was
> > none?
>
> No, there is no discussion. However, now it's too late as it's
> already online, known for everybody and linked on several places.
To everybody ;?
> I don't think that "next" is a wrong choice but it's maybe a
> question of taste. ;-)
ACK ;)
Have fun
Thomas.
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