[c-nsp] downloads broken?

[Jared Mauch]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 09:27:23AM -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> Peter Rathlev wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 01:16 +0800, raymondh (NSP) wrote:
>>> I think they're doing some migration.
>>> Use the new download area. I'm able to download the releases via the  
>>> new Download area.
>>> I've managed to download the images via the new download area but not 
>>>  via the conventional web navigation for IOS downloads.
>>
>> Both seems to work again now. Neither worked before. It's still
>> cumbersome as usual of course, but at least it works now.
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 12:08 -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
>>> I'm personally fed up with this crap from Cisco.
>>>
>>> They've broken so many things with software downloads over the years, 
>>>  including coded image access via FTP, crypto access via FTP, website 
>>>  requires cookies now to fetch the images, etc..
>>
>> Does anyone know why Cisco started on this thing with the downloads? Did
>> they see too many inappropriate downloads or what? I'm not sure what was
>> wrong with the way it worked in the old days.
>>
>
> It wasn't pretty. I seriously can't think of any other reason.

	The old way was painful to navigate, I *much* prefered
going the FTP method as a result.  You could always get the same
feature set as your old image and it would not have other dependencies
eg: 3rd party cookie magic.

	It would also take a long time to render the webpage in most
browsers.  Older versions of MSIE were horrible in the speed of rendering
tables.  The webkit(Safari) and other engines are much faster.  The clueless
IT-centric customers likely blamed it on cisco instead of their crappy
software on their desktop, including the firewall/NAT devices that broke
their FTP.

	- Jared

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