Re: PHP Mirrors

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Hannes Magnusson <bjori@php.net> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 19:58, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Hannes Magnusson <bjori@php.net> wrote: >>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 19:42, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi guys, >>>> >>>> Do all of our mirrors have CURL enabled ? >>>> >>>> I'm pulling in these files for the new beta homepage: >>>> -- http://pear.php.net/feeds/latest.rss >>>> -- http://pecl.php.net/feeds/latest.rss >>>> >>>> and I want to cache them on the mirror for 24 hours and would prefer >>>> to use something stable like CURL instead of a file_get_contents() >>>> call. >>> >>> The mirrors in general don't have curl enabled no. >>> Having a local cache file on the mirrors could also be an issue. >>> Either it needs to be pre-generated, or let the browser fetch cache >>> and render it? >> >> Can you elaborate (technically) on what you meant by "or let the >> browser fetch cache and render it" > > Use JS to fetch the rss file, and then use an rss js reader to loop over it. Yes, my first thought was cross-domain issues however i now realised that it's just a different subdomain and we should be able to fetch it just fine. Also off-loading the responsibility to the client-side takes good load off our mirrors :-) > -Hannes >