[jira] [Created] (SOLR-7413) Website: downloading past releases is harder than it should be

["Steve Rowe (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Steve Rowe created SOLR-7413:
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             Summary: Website: downloading past releases is harder than it should be
                 Key: SOLR-7413
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7413
             Project: Solr
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: website
            Reporter: Steve Rowe
            Assignee: Steve Rowe
            Priority: Minor


Clicking on the "Download" button at the top of every Solr website page takes you to [http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html] (let's call it the download-redirect page), which pauses for 3 seconds and then auto-redirects to the Apache download mirror page for the latest Solr release.  The download-redirect page has info about downloading past releases, but there are problems with the current setup:

# The 3 second auto-redirect doesn't allow enough time to read the page before it's gone.
# Firefox (latest version, on OS X and Windows) doesn't include the page in its browser history, so you can't go back - clicking the back button will take you to the page you were on when you clicked the "Download" button, not back to the download-redirect page.
# Internet Explorer and Chrome include the download-redirect page in their history, so you clicking the back button will go there, but then after three seconds you get redirected to the Apache download mirrors page, whack-a-mole style.

When I was putting this page together, I guess I only tested on Safari on OS X 10.10.  This browser keeps the download-redirect page in its history, so clicking the back button after the auto-redirect takes you to the mirror pages will take you back to the download-redirect page, and the auto-redirect never recurs.




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