While looking at a report of failure from a user I discovered a mirror
that was not responding over rsync and had a large number of files
missing on http (yes i've complained to the mirror admin). Mirrorbrain's
base url check passed making it think the mirror was up and of course
scanning failed making mirrorbrain think the mirror still had all the
files it had previously had. The result was unhappy users.
IMO in cases where a different protocol is used for scanning than for
redirection it would be good to check the base url used for scanning in
the base url check. If the protocol used for scanning is not available
it likely indicates problems with the mirror and i'd preffer a mirror
with problems was pulled out of rotation until those problems are fixed.
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