Re: autodetect mirrors

From: Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 20:40:34 +0000
Subject: Re: autodetect mirrors
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> > I have just made the mirror autodetection code working > > on downloads.php. Can some guys please check if this > > feature works for other countries then hu ;) At least > > this works for me, add hu.php.net and hu2.php.net as > > possible mirrors. ;) This may help driving some traffic > > off php.net to mirror sites. That's why they are there. > > Works great with .fi host, nice job. > > Since I (and probably about 80% of German users) am on a > .net host, it does not work for me ;( > > Perhaps this is bullshit, if you do this for all countries, but > for Germany, you could perhaps check for t-dialin.net and arcor-ip.net. This was the problem I was aware of... It would be nice to have some more logical detection. Maybe the browsers language settings poested in HTTP request headers can help to refine the mirror site setting? I guess a high percent of German user's use German browsers... Goba

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