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

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Component/s: website
• Assignee: Steven Rowe
• Reporter: Steven Rowe
• Created: 17/Apr/15 00:27
• Updated: 24/Oct/21 23:48
• Resolved: 24/Oct/21 23:48

Description

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:

1. The 3 second auto-redirect doesn't allow enough time to read the page before it's gone.
2. 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.
3. Internet Explorer and Chrome include the download-redirect page in their history, so 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 the download-redirect 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.

Issue Links

• is related to: LUCENE-3978 redo how our download redirect pages work