RE: ip-to-country - summary

Hi Looks like mysql.com is doing the method I've meantioned. Maybe Jim can enlighten us? Regards --jm > -----Original Message----- > From: Gabor Hojtsy [mailto:gabor@hojtsy.hu] > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 9:48 PM > To: Jacques Marneweck; Divyank Turakhia; php-mirrors@lists.php.net > Cc: jimw@php.net; imajes@php.net; 'James Cox' > Subject: Re: ip-to-country - summary > > > > I was taking a peek at doing stuff kief stuff when doing a > > /get/file/from/mirror goodie we can open a connection to the remote > > server the user wants to pull the file from and check it > the file exists > > read say 1024/2048 or however many bytes, check the status > code. I do > > something similar with my implementation to Colin's works > stuff and to a > > couple other sites that I use for work. This would add a > slight 1 sec > > or so delay but it's prob worth it? > > I don't think that this worth it in real time. We can play with the > last-updated date we already collect from the mirrors. We > know when a release > was out, and if the site was updated since that time, then > the file should be > there. We also check all mirrors every hour, and remove them > after a few days > of inactivity / outdatedness. We can distribute the > last-updated and last-up > dates to the mirrors... But this is pure speculation, and is > only interesting > if we would like to do some automatic redirection, which we > would not ;) > First do the first steps, then go on... > > Goba >