RE: ip-to-country

I just changed the subject since the entire essence of the thread has changed :o) Derick: as goba had pointed out earlier on this thread - we will be initially using this only to show the country on top of the download lists and mirror selection lists etc .. Automatic selection has quite a few situations that need to be handled. We will be discussing this on the list after the initial deployment or on an ongoing basis. Once we sort out all the possibilities, then only we will look at deploying this for auto selection. - Div > -----Original Message----- > From: Derick Rethans [mailto:d.rethans@jdimedia.nl] > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 2:09 PM > To: Divyank Turakhia > Cc: 'Gabor Hojtsy'; php-mirrors@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: Manuals and Spiders > > > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Divyank Turakhia wrote: > > > Even I feel that it makes sense to have this on all > mirrors. We can do > > a lot of things other than just mirror redirection with an > > ip-to-country db - The events from his country would come > on top - the > > download links from his country would come on top etc. Its > only going > > to help improve the browsing experience. Also, there is > absolutely no > > disadvantages of having this on all mirrors. So there is no > reason as > > to why we should not implement it all across the board. > > But I see one disadvantage... when a mirror in a country is > not doing so > well (speed, or blackouts) you are forced to use that mirror if you > decide it automatically... and what if I want to use the 2nd > mirror in a > country for example? I think there should be a way to override the > automatic mirror selection to prevent these problems. > > Derick > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Derick Rethans > http://derickrethans.nl/ > JDI Media Solutions > http://www.jdimedia.nl/ > PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals > http://php-mag.net/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- >