Very likely it was easiest at the time. The current approach with closer.cgi does not work well with Safari which ignores the site screaming that the resource is text/html and decides that since the URL ends with .gz it must be downloaded and not displayed. I filed that as a WebKit bug many years ago and while it is definitely broken with regard to the standard, there it is not going to change.
I assume that whatever you come up with be an improvement. Get it working with log4net and we can port it to the other products. On Sep 6, 2011, at 11:19 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > Hi, > > over the next few days I'll be working on the log4net site to make it > use Maven to conform to the rest of the logging projects (at least this > is what a JIRA ticket raised by Curt claims 8-). I plan to copy much of > what log4php has been doing except that I won't invest time in making > surefire work with NUnit for now. > > The log4net download page currently doesn't use the mirrors at all which > I'm going to change. All the other LS download pages I've looked at use > links to closer.cgi rather than a templated cgi like the commons > components (for example [1]) or Ant or many other projects do. Is there > any reason we are doing it this way? > > Stefan > > [1] http://commons.apache.org/compress/download_compress.cgi
