Bug 13764 – Downloading the latest nightly should use the actual filename with a revision

• Component: Tools / Tests
• Status: CLOSED FIXED

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

When customers download the "latest" nightly build, the file is named "Latest-WebKit-SVN.dmg" with no revision number.  It would be more helpful if grabbing the latest nightly returned the actual DMG filename (via HTTP redirect or a Content-Disposition header) so that users could be more specific about which version they're using instead of "the one from yesterday" (which is meaningless if you don't have their timezone) or "the one from April 25" (which is meaningless if there is more than one build for April 25).

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

The Latest DMG URL now redirects to the current image URL, so this is now fixed.

http://nightly.webkit.org/builds/Latest-WebKit-SVN.dmg 

[Adam Salter]

This URL no longer works.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Well, it was fixed for a while!

Mark, do you want to bring back the "Latest-WebKit-SVN.dmg" URL like these?

http://nightly.webkit.org/files/trunk/mac/Latest-WebKit-SVN.dmg
http://nightly.webkit.org/files/trunk/win/Latest-WebKit-SVN.dmg
http://nightly.webkit.org/files/trunk/src/Latest-WebKit-SVN.dmg

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

mrowe@daisy:~$ curl -I http://nightly.webkit.org/builds/trunk/mac/latest
HTTP/1.1 302 
Server: nginx/0.5.32
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:23:04 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Status: 302 Found
Location: r27595.dmg">http://nightly.webkit.org/files/trunk/mac/WebKit-SVN-r27595.dmg
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 129

mrowe@daisy:~$ 

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Additionally, all of the links on nightly.webkit.org point to URLs that contain revision numbers.  There is no way that I know of to get a build out of nightly.webkit.org that lacks a revision number.