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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] broken links
  • Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:42:49 +1000

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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 03:31, Andrew wrote:
> > Oh and two bugs were fixed yesterday.
> > 1) a fallback_url for download.soucemage.org was wrong and
> > 2) the ftp fallback_url wasn't working due to timstamp checking issues
> > and wget
> > so now even if a link is broken it should fallback to one of five valid
> > mirrors.(including warloks which seems to be missing most packages)
> > But still I am sure it would be hel;pful to have a URL guru :)
>
> Ive been meaning to bring this up, currently the way things work is
> one fallback url is choosen if the file cant be found elsewhere, this
> works fine if all the mirrors have everything, but sometimes they dont
> (not pointing any fingers) I think that maybe instead of choosing one
> fallback, we should choose each fallback in a random order until we
> find the file or run out of fallbacks. That way if i dont have a file
> for whatever reason, but swoolley does, then it will continue on to his
> server. I think its much less error prone that way, and removes the
> single point of failure that has come up.
>
> -Andrew
If i was a sorcery hacker I would quickly say yes.
As it is i say "that would be very nice , I hope someone finds time to
implement it"
Hamish
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