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On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 04:39:14PM +0100, Klaus T. Aehlig wrote:
>=20
> > Until recently, github required two requests to get a tarball: one to
> > initiate the tarball creation, the other to download it.
>=20
> Yes, that's what I remember. The URL you got after the first redirect
> was then good for a couple of days -- till eventually it wasn't used
> for long enough time and the initial request was necessary again to
> initiate tarball creation once again.
>=20
> When did they change that? That's definitely good news.

The change occurred sometime in the last few months. This might be
related:

https://github.com/blog/900-nodeload2-downloads-reloaded

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