Approval needed again: Scim-tables
Michael Schwendt
bugs.michael at gmx.net
Sun Jun 26 16:38:39 UTC 2005
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:26:13 +0900, Ryo Dairiki wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> I've adopted Colin's idea simply because I have no objection about that.
> But today I've found this in the document from sourceforge.net.
>
> *May I use my download manager when downloading files from
> SourceForge.net?
> *
> SourceForge.net makes use of a geographically-distributed set of
> download servers for providing files for download. When performing a
> file download, users are now presented with a HTML page, allowing
> them to select the mirror they wish to use in downloading that file.
> Most download managers are not able to handle this arrangement, and
> will instead download the HTML of the mirror selection page. It will
> be necessary to disable your download manager before attempting to
> download files from SourceForge.net.
>
> It seems like direct download is a heavy task for SorceForge.net.
> So I would have better put "prdownload" back again.
> What do you think, everyone?
Again, as explained before, the dl.sf.net URLs point to mirrors in
round-robin fashion (see e.g. "host dl.sf.net") and don't download
from the master site.
Further, only very (!) few users download source code from locations
specified in spec files.
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Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at users.sf.net>
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