[ut2003io] streamlining downloads from mirrors

Michiel El Muerte Hendriks elmuerte at el-muerte.student.utwente.nl
Mon Oct 7 17:09:05 EDT 2002


On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:02:04PM -0400, Kevin Podbielniak wrote:
> If I understand this correctly, the mirror locations rotate in the list 
> once they've been selected.
> 
> For example, when the patch comes out, and you have list of 3 mirrors the 
> backend, transparet to the web monkey, will look like this:
> 
> Site 1
> Site 2
> Site 3
> 
> The first person who hits your webpage, will get the file from Site 1, then 
> the list (behind the scenes) looks like this:
> 
> Site 2
> Site 3
> Site 1
> 
> The second person to hit your site it will get the file from Site 2, and 
> the list changes to:
> 
> Site 3
> Site 1
> Site 2
> 
> Is this correct?
> 
> Pretty sweet.

yep, that's how it will work

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Michiel "El Muerte" Hendriks            elmuerte at drunksnipers.com
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