Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 01:22:06 +0200 From: Stefan.Bethke@Hanse.DE (Stefan Bethke) To: Megan McCormack <meganm@asis.com>, Peter Nitezki <Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de> Cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Glitch in German mirror of FreeBSD Web site Message-ID: <v01540b00b0154c049894@[193.141.161.123]>
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At 12:24 Uhr 11.08.1997, Megan McCormack wrote: >At 01:30 PM 8/11/97 +0200, you wrote: >>At 12:34 Uhr +0200 11.08.1997, Peter Nitezki wrote: >>>I just discovered a small problem/nuisance in conjunction with the site >>>www.de.freebsd.org. The URL to the preview of the newsletter points to >>>the US site, thus reverting the setting pointing to the German mirror >>>and switching back to annoyingly slow FTP performance. >> >>Sorry, this holds true for (almost) all of our mirrors. "Mirror" effectivly >>means mirroring the pages "as is". >> >>We are working on that. >> >>Nonetheless, the newsflash entry should probably contain a http://... entry >>also. > >The newsletter is in PDF format and at the ftp site. As the ftp >site is not mirrored the link must be to the US site. Not quite right. The correct link, IMO, would be to ftp.de.freebsd.org, which should--as a complete mirror--also provide the newsletter. >http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/newsletter/issue1.pdf is no faster :) Sure? Within Europe, or at least Germany, providers are making use of a hierarchy of proxy caches (with Squid), and chances are that a nearer copy already exists. Admittedly, this hold true for FTP via [your favorite browser] also, but in case of PDF it still has two advantages: - is feels more responsive, due to the smaller set-up time for a connection, if the original must be fetched from ftp.freebsd.org. - If you're using the Acrobat plug-in, the plug-in could load only the first page, if the PDF was created correctly (as a version 1.2), thus increasing the "it's faster" feeling. (I did't check.) >I'll see about putting up a html version which can truly be mirrored. That, of course, is even better, as the newsletter actually consist mostly of type (although the picture is quite interesting :-) Stefan -- Stefan Bethke <Stefan.Bethke@Hanse.DE> Hamburg, Germany
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