by DzM Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:31 pm
I don't care if you want to host the file. It just has to be abundantly clear to technically inexperienced people that the file did not come from Medusa's server. Many people are not familiar enough with the structure of hyperlinks and URLs to understand that when they click a link here for an MP3, the MP3 that ends up on their hard drive may have come from a different server. Hence the need to link to a page on the other server, or to break the direct link such that the end-user has to reconstruct it in a way that makes it clear where the request is going.
I don't care if you want to host the file. It just has to be abundantly clear to technically inexperienced people that the file did not come from [i]Medusa's[/i] server. Many people are not familiar enough with the structure of hyperlinks and URLs to understand that when they click a link here for an MP3, the MP3 that ends up on their hard drive may have come from a different server. Hence the need to link to a page on the other server, or to break the direct link such that the end-user has to reconstruct it in a way that makes it clear where the request is going.
