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geek1011 · 07-07-2019, 10:42 PM

I've made a few updates to kfwproxy. kfwproxy is an API proxy I wrote to cache requests to Kobo (so there aren't thousands of requests every hour, and to make kobofirmware load faster) and to add CORS headers (so the response can be accessed from my firmware page). Now, the latest firmware version and release notes page (updated every 15 minutes) is tracked during cache updates and is able to be directly accessed. The release notes are cached, and will still be there even if they are taken down (unless I restart kfwproxy).

The URLs are:
- https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/latest/version - latest version as plain text
- https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/latest/version/redir - latest firmware file redirect
- https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/latest/version/svg - svg image of current version
- https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/latest/version/png - png image of current version
- https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/latest/notes - latest release notes number
- https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/latest/notes/redir - latest release notes redirect (not cached, just add https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/ before the Kobo API URL to cache it the way my kobofirmware page does)

I have added an automatically-updating image showing the latest version to my signature.

07-07-2019, 10:42 PM	#119
geek1011 Wizard Posts: 2,805 Karma: 7423683 Join Date: May 2016 Location: Ontario, Canada Device: Kobo Mini, Aura Edition 2 v1, Clara HD	I've made a few updates to kfwproxy. kfwproxy is an API proxy I wrote to cache requests to Kobo (so there aren't thousands of requests every hour, and to make kobofirmware load faster) and to add CORS headers (so the response can be accessed from my firmware page). Now, the latest firmware version and release notes page (updated every 15 minutes) is tracked during cache updates and is able to be directly accessed. The release notes are cached, and will still be there even if they are taken down (unless I restart kfwproxy). The URLs are: - https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/latest/version - latest version as plain text - https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/latest/version/redir - latest firmware file redirect - https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/latest/version/svg - svg image of current version - https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/latest/version/png - png image of current version - https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/latest/notes - latest release notes number - https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/latest/notes/redir - latest release notes redirect (not cached, just add https://kfwproxy.geek1011.net/ before the Kobo API URL to cache it the way my kobofirmware page does) I have added an automatically-updating image showing the latest version to my signature.