Re: Manuals and Spiders

Yes, but it will be as per your wish to be there, right? In that case, it only strenghtes my claim: You want to redirect people from the main site, and from the main site alone... I wanted to add, about automatic redirection, the following idea: in the main page we can add a check to see if a variable, say, "dontredirectme" is set, and in that case, display the page normally, even if there is a mirror. Then, in case it was not set, output something like: "The php.net website is mirrored on many physical locations, worldwide. According to our records, you are located in <country>, and we have an active mirror site of the PHP.net website in that <country>. Browsing the php.net site from your own country will make your browsing experience better, thanks to a higher speed. Also, you will help reducing the load on the main PHP.net website. Therefore, you will now be redirected to http://<cntry-code>.php.net. If you _do not_ wish to be redirected, please <a href="<? echo $PHP_SELF."?dontredirectme=1"; ?> ">click here</a> Or something of that kind... :-) On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > > You all keep forgetting one thing... the *mirrors* doesn't need to > > redirect people! > > > > If someone got to a mirror, it happened in one exact way: > > > > 1. He either used a search engine and got there [bad! that's why i suggest > > mirrors will completely block spiders!] > > > > 2. The main website pointed him there... > > > > Why would we, at all, need redirection code at the mirrors? :) > > You can either get to a mirror because it appeared in a search engine result > (your first point), but you may also get there to use local search only > available from there (www.php.net site search is often down). You may also > use a mirror because it updates itself more often then your local one, > however for a huge download (PHP release, documentation package), it would be > quicker to use the local mirror. > > BTW php.net is also not guaranteed to have any database support, the www > server is completely separated from the other servers as far as I know. > > Goba > -- Best regards, Shimi ---- "Outlook is a massive flaming horrid blatant security violation, which also happens to be a mail reader." "Sure UNIX is user friendly; it's just picky about who its friends are."