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Count downloads from content delivery network #1517
Description
Following my comment here, we can get reliable download counts despite the existence of a CDN via a redirection scheme:
- Add the Cache-Control: no-store header for the download endpoint;
- Log the download statistic.
- Return HTTP302 (Redirect) to another endpoint with the current CDN caching configuration.
I am happy to implement this feature.
One point that is unclear is whether this issue should be address after #1342, given that the server will necessarily process more download counts.
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gbaz commentedon Aug 20, 2026
I believe we can use our 302 redirect mechanism for hackage-content here too, so we just would need to turn on redirects to our hackage-content domain for tgz files, with no other work. (And to add the no-store header)