RE: local search support
| From: | shimi | Date: | Fri, 23 May 2003 12:07:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: local search support | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.mirrors |
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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
>
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Shimi
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