On 11 Dec 2000, Itai Zukerman wrote: > Looking at the http method, it seems like it would be pretty easy to > enqueue new (HTTP) URIs for redirects in http.cc. That "solution" is > definitely a hack (it messes up concurrent downloads?), and what we > really need, I think, is a new message we can pass back to apt: > > 30x URI Redirection > > Then, apt can re-issue a 600 to the appropriate method. Is this being > worked on? I need it for a project I'm doing...
Doing redirects is extremly risky, you may not get the file you requested after following the redirect, and it tends to hide misconfigured mirrors. I am not super interested in having it supported by default. Generajing redirect messages is probably the best way to do it, but that is somewhat complicated to get right. Jason
