On 14.06.2011 20:47, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > On 06/14/2011 09:15 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote: >> On 06/14/2011 05:40 AM, Hyrum K Wright wrote: >>> [ dropping infra from this bit, 'cause I believe it to be a local issue. ] >>> >>> 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. >> >> Ours isn't the only instance of a download.cgi script exhibiting this >> problem, though. See, for example, http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi, >> which appears to be having the same issue. > > Re-adding infra, as I believe there might be a more global issue here. for > example, when I visit http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi and select any > particular mirror and then click "Change", the mirror I selected is > represented into the URL of the fetched page (in the Preferred= CGI query > param), but the mirror I selected is *not* the one chosen as the preferred > one.
Sorry if I'm too late, or the following is not helpful. I noticed and analyzed a similar (same?) problem in October and wrote to infra. Daniel Shahaf responded, but I don't know whether the fix was actually applied. For details please have a look at the mail thread "Two recent bugs in mirrors.cgi" between Daniel and me on October 22nd 2010 on the infra list. I don't know whether there are public links, but the member mail search finds it. Regards, Rainer
