On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:59:33AM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Gavin Sherry wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > It occurs to me that opening web page on www.postgresql.org, asking the > > user to select the mirror, is rather unprofessional. I am sure this has > > been discussed before but I thought I would bring it up again anyway. > > Your point? > > > So, why not just redirect people to one of the mirrors listed? This could > > be done based on IP (yes it is inaccurate but it is close enough and has > > the same net effect: pushing people off the main web server) or it could > > be done by simply redirecting to a random mirror. > > Been there, done that, didn't work. Too much of a job to keep track of > that many IP blocks too.
I'd suggest setting a cookie, so I only see the 'pick a mirror' the first time. And provide a link to 'pick a different mirror' that resets or ignores the cookie. Ross ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
