[c-nsp] cisco download problems

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 02:54:54PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 
> 	anyone else having issues with the new download system
> cisco did at cco?

Looks like they changed the authentication method for the actual file 
download on the http://download-sj.cisco.com/swc/esd/02/crypto/3DES/etc 
etc url the web interface tosses you after its done with all of the 
disclaimers. It used to just prompt for authentication via HTTP, making 
the url easily script fetchable, now it redirects you to a login webpage 
and probably saves your session information as a cookie or something.

Personally I find this remarkably annoying. At least this is only as bad 
as say Juniper, you can still download the images directly to a shell 
account, you just have to use lynx or wget with cookies saved or something 
along those lines. It could always be worse, Foundry's site is so bad you 
can't download images from anything less than a full web browser. Cisco 
was doing the "right thing" (tm) before, hopefully they can be encouraged 
to put it back the way it was.

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