Re: Please Use the Mirrors!

[cpaul <inc fastmedia net>]

On Thu, 06 May 2004 17:23:16 -0400
seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu> wrote:

> > Better yet, have yum support redirects (I don't know if it doesn't
> > already) and have the yum.conf point to a dynamic webpage that redirects
> > to a local mirror for the client (using the cpan module for country
> > location, or something of the like).
> 
> yum supports http redirects but it doesn't support javascript redirects
> or META refresh redirects (nor will it, so don't ask! :)
> 

could do something with Geo::IP - which is what php.net and
others appear to do with mirrors and downloads.

http://search.cpan.org/~tjmather/Geo-IP-1.21/lib/Geo/IP.pm


regards



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chris paul