gaim.sf.net redirect breaks release notification plugin

Luke Schierer lschiere at pidgin.im
Mon Apr 9 22:09:18 EDT 2007


On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:32:08PM -0500, Mark Doliner wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:50:02 -0400, Luke Schierer wrote
> > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:36:32PM -0500, Mark Doliner wrote:
> > > I see that http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ is redirecting to http://pidgin.im/. 
> > > That's cool, but unfortunately it breaks the release notification plugin.  I
> > > get the following text in a popup window:
> > > 
> > > You are using Gaim version 2.0.0beta6.  The current version is HTTP/1.1
> 302 Found
> > > .
> > >
> > 
> > Should the redirect line be commented out, or should the breakage 
> > just be noted on the news page?
> 
> It would be good to redirect for everything except whatever file the release
> notification plugin uses (maybe http://gaim.sf.net/version.php?).  But causing
> the release notification plugin to display a gross error message for everyone
> using Gaim is a bad thing.
> 
> Commenting out the redirect line until it can be fixed is probably a good idea.
> 
> -Mark
> 

Done.

luke



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