[jira] [Comment Edited] (ACCUMULO-3932) Download page on site, links don't work when google analytics is blocked

["Christopher Tubbs (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Christopher Tubbs edited comment on ACCUMULO-3932 at 7/6/15 5:47 PM:
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Sorry for the confusion. When JS is disabled, you can't right click for a different reason: the links take you to [an html page|http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi] to select a mirror instead of directly to the files. You'd be saving HTML and not the target file.

This would mean that your options are:

When JS is disabled:
* left-click, select mirror to download file

When JS is enabled:
* left-click to download file, or
* right-click to save-as

When JS is enabled, but google-analytics is blocked (or perhaps broken temporarily):
* right-click to save-as

This leaves no consistent way to download that works for all three situations. Left-click should work in all cases (though, I'm fine with its behavior being slightly different in the JS disabled case).


was (Author: ctubbsii):
Sorry for the confusion. When JS is disabled, you can't right click for a different reason: the links take you to [an html page|http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi] to select a mirror instead of directly to the files. You'd be saving HTML and not the target file.

This would mean that your options are:

When JS is disabled:
* left-click, select mirror to download file
When JS is enabled:
* left-click to download file, or
* right-click to save-as
When JS is enabled, but google-analytics is blocked (or perhaps broken temporarily):
* right-click to save-as

This leaves no consistent way to download that works for all three situations. Left-click should work in all cases (though, I'm fine with its behavior being slightly different in the JS disabled case).

> Download page on site, links don't work when google analytics is blocked
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>
>                 Key: ACCUMULO-3932
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3932
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: website
>            Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
>            Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
>            Priority: Minor
>          Time Spent: 20m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> The links on the download page don't work with left-click if google analytics are blocked with a plugin (like Ghostery).
> Right clicking to download with "Save as..." does still work, but that won't work if scripts are blocked entirely. When scripts are blocked, the mirror selection is not done automatically, and the links take you to the mirror redirector page, and not the direct downloads. So, right-click won't work in that case, and left-click is pretty important.
> We could probably make our links a bit smarter, but I'm no JavaScript expert, so the fix is not immediately obvious to me.



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