On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Eliezer Croitoru <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> As for now there are couple very good clients which makes use of metalinks.
>
> I have seen that some mirrorbrain based servers are actually publishing
> metalinks files in their headers.
> Fedora just redirect you to the nearest mirror..
>
> I am writing an add-on for squid http cache proxy server that will allow it
> to take advantage on the data that in the metalinks files for better cache.
Eliezer, thanks for writing & apologies for not replying to your other
message quicker...but yes, this is what I was going to say, that from
a regular download you can get to a metalink automatically via HTTP
header, or from metalink you can get to the canonical link or file
actually being mirrored (by a whitelist or somesuch?)
also, check out the short 3 message thread ('Forward proxies and
CDN/mirrors') on the HTTP list
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012AprJun/0409.html
the HTTP list might be the best place to ask since there aren't a
whole lot of proxy people here, more metalink focus here, but there
are on the HTTP list.
& here are some other links I already sent you:
I don't know enough about squid, but the basic idea is that people are
downloading identical files (same hash/content) from multiple
locations (different URLs). you want these duplicate entries to be
consolidated. sites that use metalinks give the info to consolidate
them in an automatic way while other sites don't.
maybe check out the info on the Apache Traffic Server plugin for
metalink: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Metalink
it gives some links for squid stuff:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.squid.devel/15803
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.squid.devel/16335
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-29.pdf
http://wiki.jessen.ch/index/How_to_cache_openSUSE_repositories_with_Squid
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