[ dropping infra from this bit, 'cause I believe it to be a local issue. ] On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Hyrum K Wright <hy...@hyrumwright.org> wrote: >... > Another (possibly-related) problem occurs when attempting to change > the mirror. The form submits, but the mirror doesn't change to the > expected one.
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. I don't know if this is because we are running the CGI in a somewhat unorthodox manner, but it means that users have trouble selecting a specific mirror, which could be a problem if they are having trouble with one or more of the existing mirrors (as the original mail to this thread indicates). I'm not sure how to debug the problem, but offer it here for future generations. -Hyrum
