> > > Links to http://www.php.net/links.php, IMHO it should link to /links.php > > > (otherwise all mirrors point back to WWW.php.net here...) > > > > It *should not* link to /links.php, as the manuals are generated to offline > > HTML, CHM, PDF and Palm versions, so the link does need to have a hostname, > > and what else can you provide as hostname, then the main site... > > > > Goba > > I must admit that I haven't understood a word :) > > AFAIK, the WHOLE php website is mirrored by ALL OF THE MIRRORS, correct? > In order to qualify to an official mirror you must mirror EVERYTHING, right? > > This includes the file links.php, which is also mirrored, right? > > The way it is right now, if someone clicks on "links", he'll get to the > copy at www.php.net. Not at the mirror he was surfing. Then, he continues > to surf the site, but he does so from www.php.net, as all the links link > to the currect hostname, of course. > > By "/links" I meant <a href="/links.php">whatever</a> - is that what you > understood ? > > Or I got it all wrong? :) You can mail me off the list if you want to > further explain me where I got it wrong :)
1. Download a "many html version" of the manual. 2. Uncompress it 3. Now go to your local copy of tutorial.whatsnext.html you uncompressed in the previous step. 4. There click on the link to the links.php page Now what would happen if we put /links.php as the href of that link, instead of http://www.php.net/links.php ??? How would that work for any other versions then the online viewable ones??? There *must* be a hostname in that href to link to somewhere appropriate for downloadable versions. We cannot just pick a mirror and say it will work, because we are not sure, so the best choice is www.php.net ... > p.s. the geoip detects people quite well - why isn't it used already? :) I don't know, I am not working on that subject, Jim Winstead done some experiments (see the php-mirrors list archives). Goba -- PHP Documentation Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
