Add support for update server to respond with an HTTP redirect instead of JSON

[ezekg]

Instead of requiring an update server to respond with a specific JSON schema, what if we also allowed a server to respond with an HTTP 301, 302, 303 or 307 redirect pointing to the new release URL? This would allow for third-party distribution services, such as my own to be more easily integrated with Squirrel, without the third-party service needing to add a compatibility layer for Squirrel.Mac (i.e. at minimum, a top-level url property in the response payload.)

Since this would be in addition to the 200 JSON response, this should be a backwards-compatible change.

What do you all think?

p.s. I'd love to sponsor this/donate to Squirrel on behalf of Keygen. Let me know if you provide options for that, or if somebody else wants to jump in with approval from the maintainers. 🙂

[jwatte]

Given that this is 20 years old well established web tech, I thought this would Just Work (tm.)
And now I'm forced to come up with some terrible rewrite rule to make this happen.
Please implement this!