Hi everybody, I am trying to implement a cgi script for mirroring a small part of a large collection of files (the debian distribution). The idea is to mirror only those files which are requested, by downloading them "on the fly" when the clients request them. Requests in the form "wget http://local.mirror.pt/~debian/cgi-bin/get.cgi?pool/main/a/abcde/abcde.deb" work fine already. The script get.cgi verifies if the file exists. If it exists, the script simply sends a "Location: ..." directive to its standart output and exists. If the file does not exist, the script downloads it from one of several predefined locations, and after the downloading process has succeeded it sends a "Location: ..." directive to its standard output and exits.
This is more or less what apt-proxy (and other proxies) do, except that my script is independent of the directory structure (it should work for any collection of files, not only for the debian distribution) and it can be run by an ordinary user (you don't have to be root in order to install it). Now, the problem is that the debian package manager (dselect or apt-get) does not work exactly like wget. Requests in the form "apt-get http://..." fail with the strange message "302 Found". I looked a little bit into the source of both wget and apt-get and it seems to me that wget has code which deals specifically with the "Location: ..." directive, while apt-get has not. The questions are: Is my conclusion above correct ? Are future versions of apt-get going to accept "Location: ..." directives ? Should I try and modify the source of apt-get in order to teach it to handle these directives ? You can find all the details about my problem at my web page: http://cmaf.ptmat.fc.ul.pt/~barbaros -> english -> computers and programming -> deb_part_mirr Thank you. Cristian Barbarosie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]