> That is what a ping mechanism provides. Hmm. If the mirror provided a file "last-changed", it would be very easy to find out whether the mirror is still running. Mirrors not providing that file could be ignored.
> I can use for that a "wget --mirror" or "rsync -r" and I don't need to > write a program for this. If more people start mirroring PyPI through wget or rsync, I need to ban specific IP addresses. For the moment, please consider my request to stop mirroring PyPI with wget, and to write (or use) a real mirroring tool. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
