On 14 June 2011 19:47, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> On 06/14/2011 09:15 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>> On 06/14/2011 05:40 AM, Hyrum K Wright wrote:
>>> [ dropping infra from this bit, 'cause I believe it to be a local issue. ]
>>>
>>> In trying to debug a problem with our download page, I noticed that it
>>> appears we aren't respecting the Preferred query argument when
>>> selecting a mirror. For instance, going to
>>> http://subversion.apache.org/download/?Preferred=ftp%3A%2F%2Fftp.gbnet.net%2Fpub%2Fapache%2Fdist%2F
>>>
>>> doesn't select the ftp.gbnet.net mirror, as I believe it should.
>>> Instead the mirror cgi picks a mirror as if no Preferred flag was
>>> given.
>>
>> Ours isn't the only instance of a download.cgi script exhibiting this
>> problem, though. See, for example, http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi,
>> which appears to be having the same issue.
>
> Re-adding infra, as I believe there might be a more global issue here. for
> example, when I visit http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi and select any
> particular mirror and then click "Change", the mirror I selected is
> represented into the URL of the fetched page (in the Preferred= CGI query
> param), but the mirror I selected is *not* the one chosen as the preferred one.
Looks like the Change button just selects a random entry from the
list, rather than applying the selected entry.
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> C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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Received on 2011-06-14 22:21:44 CEST