RE: local search support

From: Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 12:07:31 +0000
Subject: RE: local search support
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On Fri, 23 May 2003, Divyank Turakhia wrote: > > > > The redirection is not to a random mirror, but to a local > > country mirror, > > based on your DB, Divyank... > > > > I though as much :) ... Though, this was more from the perspective of > local searches. > > I can see on the mirroring page that not too many mirrors are supporting > this. I just want to make sure that visitors are not redirected to a > random mirror with search support, outside their country or outside well > connected countries such as USA. This can obviously be done for now, > since it is to be an emergency situation, but should be avoided in the > future. All the mirrors support that redirection. It simply makes the manual-lookup.php load on the foreign countries' servers, instead of www.php.net. Right, not all mirrors has local search support, but, (was was discussed in the thread), right now, *no* local search support is used, nowhere. Google is used instead. > > - Div > -- 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."

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