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["Eric D. Schabell M.Sc." <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>]

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On Friday 19 September 2003 04:42, Hamish Greig wrote:
> > 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
>
Done with thanks to Swoolley for the tips.

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