Rainer Jung wrote on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 22:25:35 +0200: > 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. >
The relevant lists are privately archived, but download.cgi lives in a public repository, https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site/trunk/content/dyn/**/*.cgi > Regards, > > Rainer
