On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 04:39:14PM +0100, Klaus T. Aehlig wrote: > > > Until recently, github required two requests to get a tarball: one to > > initiate the tarball creation, the other to download it. > > Yes, that's what I remember. The URL you got after the first redirect > was then good for a couple of days -- till eventually it wasn't used > for long enough time and the initial request was necessary again to > initiate tarball creation once again. > > When did they change that? That's definitely good news.
The change occurred sometime in the last few months. This might be related: https://github.com/blog/900-nodeload2-downloads-reloaded -- Shaun Amott // PGP: 0x6B387A9A "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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