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[Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>]

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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Eric D. Schabell M.Sc. wrote:

> 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.

Actually, my tip didn't help much, but it shouldn't be too difficult.  I
thought it was easier than it looked.

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