On 08.03.2013 22:47, Donald Stufft wrote: > On Mar 8, 2013, at 4:45 PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > >> On 08.03.2013 22:33, Donald Stufft wrote: >>> On Mar 8, 2013, at 4:28 PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >>> >>>> BTW: If we go with the CDN caching model for external files, we'd >>>> pull the download page links directly on the /simple/ index >>>> page - as files, not external links. >>> >>> We cannot download and rehost (even if we call it a cache) external files >>> without getting permission from their owners to do so. >> >> Well, in the CDN version of the /simple/ dir, they would look >> like files hosted on the CDN. The download pages would still >> be feeding the CDN, though. > > I'm unsure what you're saying here. If it involves downloading files hosted > outside of PyPI and putting it on a PSF controlled CDN it's a non starter.
My idea was to have PyPI send a redirect to the external URL when getting a request for the file, so we could avoid hosting the files and instead just have the CDN cache them for a certain time period. However, I've now read up on the CloudFront docs, which point out that the CDN won't follow the redirect, but simply forward it to the user, bypassing the CDN: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/RequestAndResponseBehaviorCustomOrigin.html#ResponseCustomRedirects I suspect other CDNs to work in the same way, so the redirect idea doesn't work. We'd have to use a proxy solution on the PyPI server to make the caching CDN work, but that will likely cause more legal problems than the plain caching of content on the way to the user. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Mar 07 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
