Apple uses Akamai to distribute developer downloads. Perhaps the real reason for all the slowness (which happens every single year) is simply that Apple’s own servers are the chokepoint. It makes sense that Apple would need the use of its own servers for App Store downloads because each download would be customised. Having said this, Apple makes a “Caching Service” available in OS X server, which suggests that App Store assets can indeed be cached and customised, at least at the border of one’s networks.
On a related note, has anybody figured out how to use Safari’s developer tools (the “Web Inspector”) under Safari? It would be useful to capture Safari’s HTTP redirects, especially on Apple’s developer pages, and the old trick of using curl no longer works since they’ve gone all Web 2.0-ish, to get the URLs of iOS images etc that one wishes to download or send to others to download. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
