From owner-freebsd-hubs Wed Nov 20 7:52:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E6937B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 07:52:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from arachne.dreamlabs.com (209.82.34.88.creativehouse.com [209.82.34.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1957C43E42 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 07:52:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mit@dreamlabs.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arachne.dreamlabs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B248CAFE; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:52:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from shadow (unknown [65.48.111.99]) by arachne.dreamlabs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15CBC8CAFD; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:52:08 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: From: "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" To: "'jason andrade'" , "'Dan Langille'" Cc: Subject: RE: automatic URL refreshing to local country mirror Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:52:11 -0500 Organization: DreamLabs.Com Message-ID: <002f01c290ac$cb765620$c700a8c0@shadow> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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