Jordan Brown (Sun) wrote: > Whatever you do, you want to ensure that it is compatible with download > services like SDLC and its current Akamai back-end. >
Why? What needs to happen is that the design meets customer requirements rather that be compatible w/ existing Sun infrastructure. If it works, great - but that's not "whatever we do". > For patches and associated metadata, we have a server that accepts GET > requests and may (or may not) redirect them to Akamai. I don't think > you can do redirects on POST requests, which is an excellent reason to > avoid them. We currently redirect from apache to our python daemon for post requests @pkg.opensolaris.org. > > Have you thought yet about entitlement? Of course... this is handled via client-side certificates; we'll need DB lookups at runtime at the server end to handle multiple levels of entitlements/repo. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
