On Sunday 20 July 2003 01:47 pm, Nick Tarleton wrote:
> If [EMAIL PROTECTED]/site// is a DBR site, then [EMAIL PROTECTED]/site actually 
> contains a
> small 'DateRedirect' meta tag. This causes fproxy to redirect to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/<date>-site. This is a normal site containing a normal mapfile.
> The only advantage I see to altDbrUrl over the standard one is that it can
> be used in any Freenet client, whereas the standard one has an fproxy CGI
> option. The disadvantage of altDbrUrl is that, if it can't be found, you
> can't go back another day because fproxy won't know it's a DBR site.
>
> You will only get the standard/altDbrUrl option if fproxy knows you're
> trying to reach a DBR site. This means it already has the root
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/site). The standard yesterday URL will internally redirect
> directly to altDbrUrl. So there's no reason to automatically use altDbrUrl.

So, If I understand you correctly, if I get a dialog that presents "try 
altDbrUrl, or yesterdays edition" Then clicking AltDbrUrl will do nothing 
more than retry todays download using the same key that just failed. Is that 
right? If so, why not just call it "retry"?
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