[jbosstools-dev] Anonymous Downloads for Alpha release, JBT, and Stacks

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 6 Feb 2015, at 16:21, Rob Stryker wrote:

> OK David:
>
> So after discussion with Max, having the stacks.yaml say
> requiresCredentials=true when it doesn't, just to work around the
> existing workflow,  is wrong and we shouldn't do that.

To be clear - since the intent of the Alpha releases are to be available 
to everyone with or without jboss.org username requiring credentials 
would be wrong.

Of course if we can't actually get the server side to behave like it is 
really anonymous then
we could be forced to do this.

> Is there any chance we can get the JDF url on download manager to do 
> the
> following?
>
> 1) Check if the requested file is set to Anonymous Download
> 2) If yes,
>   a) Check if it looks like we're coming from a browser (either by
> checking user agent or response flags)
>   b) if yes, do the website stuff, else
>   c) just return the file as if it was a normal wget
>
> Basically, what we're requesting is that a wget
> http://www.jboss.org/download-manager/jdf/file/jboss-eap-6.4.0.Alpha.zip
> just downloads the file if it looks like we're not a browser.

+1, if the content is anonymously available might just as well hand it 
out directly without
showing the html page when the one requesting it is not a browser.

/max

> - Rob Stryker
>
> On 02/06/2015 08:40 PM, David Hladky wrote:
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> using the /jdf links is the right way to do on your side. However I 
>> do not understand the requiresCredentials issue is. Is it a problem 
>> on your side or does the service return you something unexcpected? If 
>> so, have you checked you saved the changes?
>>
>> David
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Rob Stryker" <rstryker at redhat.com>
>> To: "jbosstools-dev jbosstools-dev" <jbosstools-dev at lists.jboss.org>, 
>> "Rafael Benevides" <benevides at redhat.com>, "David Hladky" 
>> <dhladky at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Friday, 6 February, 2015 1:30:10 PM
>> Subject: Anonymous Downloads for Alpha release, JBT, and Stacks
>>
>> Hey all:
>>
>> I've made a comment over on 
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-18709
>> investigating the issue of anonymous downloads as it pertains to 
>> alpha
>> releases, stacks, and JBT as a group.
>>
>> It'd be good if those addressed directly above (david, rafael) had a
>> look just so that everyone's aware of the issues of adding any Alpha
>> release to JBoss Stacks.
>>
>> The tl;dr of it is:  if we do add alpha releases to stacks, we must
>> still use the jdf URL, and we must still set 
>> requiresCredentials=true,
>> even though it's not accurate. Otherwise we risk breaking older 
>> releases
>> of JBT.
>>
>> Any questions or comments are welcome and encouraged on the jira 
>> issue
>> directly.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> - Rob Stryker
>
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