shoesrb.com Assign a subdomain for downloads

Since we made this website static, we have lost the ability to easily host files for download. See shoes/furoshiki#5

What do we think about using a subdomain to host downloads?

Options:

point download.shoesrb.com at an S3 bucket.

Pro: simple

Con: difficult to publish static links, e.g. http://download.shoesrb.com/shoes/latest/windows
make download.shoesrb.com a web service

Pro: we can do whatever we want with urls

Con: now we have a web service to maintain again

Thoughts? Other ideas?

Jun 24 '13 13:06 wasnotrice

point download.shoesrb.com at an s3 bucket, make http://shoesrb.com/shoes/latest/windows point at http://downloads.shoesrb.com/windows/whatever.exe

?

Jun 26 '13 19:06 steveklabnik

I'm not sure how to do that when shoesrb.com is hosted on github pages :(

Jun 27 '13 01:06 wasnotrice

Meta redirect JavaScript redirect

When good ol dns isn't available ill trade pretty for it-works

Thoughts?

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On Jun 26, 2013, at 8:36 PM, Eric Watson [email protected] wrote:

I'm not sure how to do that when shoesrb.com is hosted on github pages :(

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Jun 27 '13 04:06 pjfitzgibbons

JS redirect isn't an option for our HTTP client... and I also think Meta redirect isn't?

(e.g. we want to get that URL with ruby's http library not a web browser...)

What we could do is have shoesrb.com/shoes/latest/sows-windows.exe always be the most current windows shoes release etc.

Jun 27 '13 11:06 PragTob

We could do some work to detect that case. If the response type is text/html then parse it and look for a meta-redirect. Not the prettiest but not too hard to make that work.

The other option would be something like Mechanize which follows meta-redirects out of the box, but that's an unnecessary dependency for our limited use case.

On 27 June 2013 13:22, Tobias Pfeiffer [email protected] wrote:

JS redirect isn't an option for our HTTP client... and I also think Meta redirect isn't?

(e.g. we want to get that URL with ruby's http library not a web browser...)

What we could do is have shoesrb.com/shoes/latest/sows-windows.exe always be the most current windows shoes release etc.

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