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Re: Skipping auth on downloads

 

Awesome, thanks James!


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:22 PM, James Westby <james.westby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Apparently there are issues with authenticating downloads due to the
> lack of a keyring on the phone images. In order to unblock wider testing
> it is now possible to skip the authentication checks when downloading a
> click package, You can do this by appending ?noauth=1 to the url, and
> you won't have to provide a token or oauth signature in order to
> download the package.
>
> Due to the obvious security implications, this feature will self-expire
> on Sept 15th of this year, at which point you will have to provide
> credentials once again.
>
> You can continue to test the authentication by skipping the extra
> parameter, and everything will work the same as before.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
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