Broken download URLs · community · Discussion #8149

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I don't use releases much, so I may very well be misunderstanding this. Take what I'm saying with a large grain of salt.

I wanted to note that of the URLs that Davorpa put up, only the first two are broken. The third, which he lists as expected, actually works.

I looked at one of my projects which has releases set up. I tried recreating the .../releases/latest/download... url for it.

That sends it to my equivalent of his redirect URL, which fails as his does.

When I recreate his "expected" URL for my project, it works as his does. (Mine needs a v in front of the version number. It's not clear if that's meaningful or not.)

At this time I wonder whether either

  1. The redirect is going to the wrong URL, or
  2. Multiple URLs should be supported here but only some survive

The releases link on the repo webpage points to the Expected structure link, and works correctly.

I can't find a "how this is actually supposed to work" document, by which I could state clearly whether my repo is working as expected.