mirrorlist cgi

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 02:28 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> > If you do not add &country=DE (or your country code) but there is no
> > specific set of mirrors that are current for your country then it will
> > return the global set of current mirrors.
> > 
> > if you do specify a country you want and there is no specific set of
> > mirrors then it will hand you back an empty file. This is for the people
> > who don't want to use bandwidth outside of their country for cost
> > reasons, proxy reasons, etc.
> > 
> 
> What about users who would prefer their country but would like to fall 
> back on a global list otherwise?


Then don't specify a country in the url.

It will look up your country by your ip and if it has its own mirror
file it will use it - otherwise it uses the global file.

-sv