On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 11:00:13AM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
On Sun, 2014-11-30 at 11:09 +0100, pygmee wrote:
hum, this makes things invisible for the user, but what benefits would then have the host ? This is a question that might be asked (we do because in the association we'll have to explain our expenditures)
The link from inkscape.org would and should show a thank you page for the hoster. The problem is sites linking directly to the download site and stopping us from punting links to the right mirrors for the right countries etc.
If we use a referrer filter, we can send direct links back to inkscape.org and allow links from inkscape.org though. Does this make sense?
While we don't want to provide general downloads from the Inkscape webserver, we do need to provide a mirroring source that can be copied via wget, rsync, or similar. Maybe with a BasicAuth password or something to limit who can pull from it...
I've put the pre3 files on SourceForge since that's been our process, but if we get the mirror system up and running I'll shift over to uploading to them only.
Bryce