Rich Salz wrote:
Can you implement a tomcat filter that looks to see if someone is asking for the "latest" version and if so send them an http redirect?
Nice suggestion! I like that idea. The usual approach of foo-latest.tar.gz symlinks is annoying in that you end up with tarballs in your filesystem whose versioning info is embedded inside. It adds steps to figure out whether it _is_ the latest, what version it is, what version is installed, etc.
The downside is that, unless the redirect is sufficiently smart, you've got to change the redirect in a server config, rather than changing symlinks or editting html...
That wouldn't be a problem, I can program a filter specifically for this purpose. But, as I said, that won't cover FTP and FTP should work as well, possibly with the same URL, save for the scheme.
Another alternative --- if the source of the original links is under your control --- would be to simply provide a link to the _directory_ /pub/libxml, rather than the individual files, and let the user collect up all the current ones.
Those are foreign sites, the source of those links is never under my control.
Ciao, Igor
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