Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:01:33 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Duane Wessels <wessels@nlanr.net> Cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG, kostas@nlanr.net Subject: Re: URNs, Mirror sites, and Squid Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208225010.16632W-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199712090348.UAA28336@surf>
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On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Duane Wessels wrote: > >are some others. Do you have a canned script that has a > >relatively simple framework for handling these sorts of > >exceptions? > > I do now. It makes the script a bit more complex, but not too much > I hope. That looks like it will work. There are a couple other special cases but I think the mechanism will handle them easily. > Interestingly, the your mirrors list brings out a small problem. Some > of the entries end with 'index.html' or 'freebsd.html'. This simple > script assumes that you can do straight mappings and substring > replacements. Not a problem, actually, because the URL in the mirror list on the home page may actually connect to a customized/localized home page and the real mirrored pages are off of that somewhere with the same names as on the mother site. It will just take a small bit of research to construct the truly correct mirror URL list, for the purposes of urn mapping. I'll see if I can get it set up in the next day or two. -john
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