RE: Manuals and Spiders

*snip* > > 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 Automatic redirection is bad (tm)! Rather do something that says your prefered download site is XXX and XXX similar to the apache project? Also something right above the first news article saying something like your closest mirror is XXX might not be a bad thing? Rather than just automatically redirecting? The apache project is using GeoIP for their mirror selection stuff. Not sure if we could find out if we can utilise their GeoIP stuff or get our hands on the db if it's donated seeing that PHP is one of the Apache Software Foundations projects? Maybe Jim can find out seeing that he has 'all the right connections'. Regards --jm