Awesome script... I hadn't thought of doing it this way, this is better than what I was thinking.. it seems to address everyone's concerns too in the best way that's still within our resources.
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Erenkrantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 1:50 PM Subject: Re: new download page > --On Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:39 AM -0800 Justin Erenkrantz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to write it up now. I'm also cleaning up closer.cgi > > while I'm at it. -- justin > > Well, that took *way* longer than I wanted to. Anyway, a rough > sketch of what I'm thinking of is here: > > http://www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/httpd.cgi > > And, to prove that this new system isn't any worse than the old one: > > http://www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/list.cgi > > This is a python-based CGI script that uses Greg Stein's EZT library > (much kudos to Greg for this awesome tool). It allows for the > separation of the layout from the mirroring data. Therefore, it > makes it really easy to do the above with only one CGI script > (httpd.cgi and list.cgi are symlinked to the same file) that has > multiple 'views' and templates. > > We would probably have to work a bit on the layout and flesh it out > some, but this is the idea that I had. > > Source at: > > http://www.apache.org/~jerenkrantz/mirrors.tar.gz > > If I could run CGI scripts from my home dir, I wouldn't have stuck > this in www.apache.org's docroot, but CGI scripts are not allowed > from user directories. ISTR mentioning this before and getting no > response from Greg or Jeff. -- justin >
