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.