[c-nsp] cisco download problems

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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6441/products_data_sheet0900aecd806d1fd6.html

"When downloading from Cisco, the Cisco IOS Auto-Upgrade Manager uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for 
a secure connection, requiring the user to configure the Cisco SSL certificate".


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Richard A Steenbergen wrote on 29/11/2007 10:34 μμ:
> 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.
>