Actually I think that they just do a redirect to an FTP
server. They probably do it for two reasons: 1) So that they know that
you've gone through their license agreement, 2) So that if you need to be
registered they know that you have been.
Also to annoy all of us savvy users so that we can't just get the
latest and greatest simply, but instead have to deal with all of this
crap. >:|
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Robert Nicholson wrote:
> Well being Sun they've probably mapped their download path to a servlet and
> it's probably a servlet doing the work. Given that I'm interested in how you
> can download files to the browser like they do. I don't understand why they
> do this and I'm intersted in the reasons why they can't just use a regular
> ftp tag which with GetRight etc is a lot more easier to hand than a
> proprietory streaming format that works first time or you start again.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Prashant Awadhiya
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 11:26 PM
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> > Subject: Re: What software do Sun use for their downloading process?
> >
> >
> > Will somebody please explain what it's got to do with servlets?
> >
> >
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