CHECKSUM is not easily accessible on Fedora Download Page

Máirín Duffy duffy at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jan 22 01:57:04 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 19:51 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:06:27PM -0500, M?ir?n Duffy wrote:
> > Yeh, it was our intention to have mirror manager generate a URL for
> > those download buttons that made the most sense given geographical
> > location, but that got dropped due to not having the time. It would be
> > worth bringing up again. 
> 
> Ah, but it does. :-)  The URLs look like:
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Live/i686/Fedora-14-i686-Live-Desktop.iso
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso
> 
> which has the goodness of MirrorManager behind it, issuing a HTTP 30x
> redirect to the best mirror it can.

Ooooh sweet, I didn't know that was working!! That is awesome!

~m



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