Whitelist extension (was: Re: [Typo3-typo3org] Comments on the mirroring concept)

[Karsten Dambekalns]

Hi.

Robert Lemke wrote:
> On Sunday 13 March 2005 13:29, Juergen Egeling wrote:
>> Which will lead to many small hits to the super mirror. Hmm, we should
>> think about that. Fact is: People than have to wait for the original EXT
>> server plus a connect time to the super mirror.
>> Could all be fast, but could lead to problems on slower lines, DNS not
>> answering fast enough, etc. pp.
> 
> On the other hand we also want to log the downloads of extensions if
> possible, so we can use the request for an md5 to increase the number of
> downloads for that extension.

Yep. Plus we talk about super mirror*s*, so those small hits would be split
accross a few servers. And the script receiving those request would of
course not be a class file with 6000+ lines :o)

Karsten
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Karsten Dambekalns
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