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On 14 Jun 2011, at 21:05, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> On 06/14/2011 03:41 PM, sebb wrote:
>> Looks like the Change button just selects a random entry from the
>> list, rather than applying the selected entry.
>
> Yes, that's the apparent action. In reality, the default action is "select
> a random mirror", so I suspect that this isn't so much the direct result of
> the Change button being used as it is just a side-effect of the Preferred
> server selection not "taking".
>
> See, the Change button is just a submit button. The
> "?Preferred=SELECTED_ITEM" bit added to the form submission URL is the
> natural behavior for the select box named "Preferred" and whose values come
> directly from the options therein. The mirrors.cgi is supposed to notice
> that bit in the URL query string, validate the preferred URL against the
> configured set of mirrors, and then -- if all is well in that validation
> step -- substitute that preferred URL unto the EZT template (download.html
> in our tree). That's clearly not happening.
>
> I wonder if this script was originally written for CGI and then something
> got fouled up during some retrofitting for WSGI? Maybe some misinteraction
> with the script environment?
>
This is possible, the download.cgi scripts did get a fair bit of attention a while back, and I cant recall what happened exactly, so I will have to trawl through my mail archives for that, if you have any ideas let me know. If not, I'll add it to my todo.
> --
> C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
>
Tony
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