[Flightgear-devel] Scenery mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread David Luff
The http mirrors of FG are all straight mirrors of the master site, as are the ftp mirrors. Hence the graphical scenery download page on the http mirrors points back to the master site. Hence it's impossible to download scenery from the ftp mirrors using the graphical interface. It seems to me

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:36:26PM +0100, David Luff wrote: The http mirrors of FG are all straight mirrors of the master site, as are the ftp mirrors. Hence the graphical scenery download page on the http mirrors points back to the master site. Hence it's impossible to download scenery from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread Curtis L. Olson
James A. Treacy writes: This is one of the reasons that relative links are a good idea. As a made up example, a link from http://gnucash.org/en/contribute.phtml to http://gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ should use a href=../pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ instead of a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread Martin Spott
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is one of the reasons that relative links are a good idea. As a made up example, a link from http://gnucash.org/en/contribute.phtml to http://gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ should use a href=../pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ instead of a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Luff) [2003.10.15 06:37]: The http mirrors of FG are all straight mirrors of the master site, as are the ftp mirrors. Hence the graphical scenery download page on the http mirrors points back to the master site. Hence it's impossible to download scenery from the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Cameron Moore writes: One way to fix this would be Javascript. [sound of the front door slamming] [very rapid foot steps are heard fading off into the distance ...] I think I've been watching too many cartoons lately ... my excuse is that my 2.5 year old daughter now lists SpongeBob

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curt Olson) [2003.10.15 11:38]: Cameron Moore writes: One way to fix this would be Javascript. [sound of the front door slamming] [very rapid foot steps are heard fading off into the distance ...] [ zip - Cameron zips up his flame-retardent jacket ] I said One

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Cameron Moore writes: I said One way... And BTW, I agree. I only use JS when I have no other choice. To me the only other choice is having a separate graphical page for each ftp mirror, which I don't particularly like either. So why not JS? One can assume that anyone using the GRAPHICAL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curt Olson) [2003.10.15 14:05]: Cameron Moore writes: I said One way... And BTW, I agree. I only use JS when I have no other choice. To me the only other choice is having a separate graphical page for each ftp mirror, which I don't particularly like either. So

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread Martin Spott
Cameron Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why not JS? One can assume that anyone using the GRAPHICAL interface will have a GRAPHICAL browser, so bye-bye lynx/links. One can also assume that only hardcore/anal users will have JS disabled, [...] I'm not shure if I apply for these attributes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread Martin Spott
Cameron Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My suggestion for using JS was because of the whole mirroring thing. We could do something server-side, but then our mirrors will have to be able to handle it. I assume we are constrained to using only client-side stuff. In this case you're living in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:49:36AM -0500, Curtis L. Olson wrote: The difficulty for us is that our web and ftp trees are on separate machines. They aren't even on the same server. Our ftp tree is about 13Gb, our web site is about 100Mb. If we merged all the ftp data in with the web site,