Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:52:11 -0500 From: "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" <mit@dreamlabs.com> To: "'jason andrade'" <jason@dstc.edu.au>, "'Dan Langille'" <dan@langille.org> Cc: <freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: automatic URL refreshing to local country mirror Message-ID: <002f01c290ac$cb765620$c700a8c0@shadow> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211202330230.1833-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au>
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I agree, I thought of user choice that after sending my message and hoped we could offer to save their country preferences in a cookie instead. I might have been overlooking the simple in favour of the fascination of making new toys... another option could be to save their country settings in a cookie on demand, and next visit to www.freebsd.org be taken there. For those that are interested, I found that paper at: http://www.supersparrow.org/ss_paper/ -Mit -----Original Message----- From: jason andrade [mailto:jason@dstc.edu.au] Sent: November 20, 2002 8:36 AM To: Dan Langille Cc: mit@dreamlabs.com; freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: automatic URL refreshing to local country mirror On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Dan Langille wrote: > My guess: IP address. If you know the IP address, you can figure out > what country it "belongs". This information is avaialable via > "whois". Simon Horman (Horms) gave a paper on doing this at LCA 2001. It was quite interesting. "Globally Distributed Content". He's a smart guy :-) If we go down this track it might make sense to apply it to www.freebsd.org but i don't think it'd want to be deployed on every mirror site as that takes away the user choice to select a mirror and use it (if that mirror is then going to transparently redirect..). regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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