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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> Netselect doesnt do any checking for the file (to my knowledge), it knows
> just enough to pull the hostname out of standard urls, and do icmp stuff
> with it.

That's what I figured.

> Assuming we're talking about the case of wget-able files, we actually do
> a lookup first (see url_foo_verify) although I question the necessity
> of it, theres really very little difference between checking if a file
> is there and actually downloading it, its kinda silly to connect and
> see if something is there, disconnect and reconnect again. Imagine if
> we did this with phones:
>
> *ring*
> "Hello"
> "Hi is eric there?"
> "yea let me get him"
> ...
> "hi this is eric"
> "i just wanted to know if you were there, thats all, bye"
> <click>
> *ring*
> "hello?"
> "hi can i talk to eric (now that i know he's there)?"

Nice anology. ;) Perhaps it'd be best to try to talk during the first call 
then?
Might speed up some of the downloads (at least the start of the download).

> I have the same sentiment about the whole FUZZ feature, where we try to
> poke around for alternate extensions to the file (Seth has been lobbying
> for its removal for a while now).

FUZZ just makes us lazy in checking our tarball extensions, though it does 
help
on the few mirrors (there are some) which only store one type of tarball
instead of a full mirror.

-sandalle

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