[c-nsp] downloads broken?

[Seth Mattinen]

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.

~Seth