The CF CLI download redirection web application.
- Provide a consistent link to our downloads regardless of underlying storage (be it S3, Github, etc.)
- Provide a consistent link that points the latest version of the CF CLI on a per architecture basis.
- Amazon S3 supports a 'latest' version link, but did this via
301 Moved Permanently
. Meaning the browser would cache the old version of the link, if we recently released, for the length of the browser cache. - Github does not seem to be able to provide a link to the latest binary/installer on a per architecture basis.
- Amazon S3 supports a 'latest' version link, but did this via
- Provides analytics for each download link.