Re: New redirector

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> FYI - I've committed a new version of the URL redirector for downloads.
> 
> The old version was being used for linkfilter-breakthrough to distribute
> viruses :-(
> 
> Since I was hacking around that code anyway, I didn't just add a filter
> to it, but changed around how it works a bit. Apart from it no longer
> being possible to use it to break through stupid linkblockers, it has
> also made the URLs easier to read and copy/paste, and we're also storing
> the logging information in a way that's much easier to analyze than before.
> 
> Do keep your eyes open for bugs, of course :-)

this change broke most of the website replication code and is close to 
running out some of the website mirrors out of diskspace. It seems that 
the mirror script is now copying tons of /redir/<mirrorid> directories 
to the slaves and some of them contain indvidual copies of the full 
source tarball for all active releases.
This causes both disk-usage related issues as well as very long 
sync-times between wwwmaster and the slaves...
I don't have time to look into that more closely now so it would ge good 
if somebody else could.


Stefan