Re: [http-replicator-users] http-replicator license

[Gertjan v. Z. <ger...@gm...>]

Ok - I released 4.0alpha2 with a GPL license file.

Yes, certainly. I posted the patch to the tracker at
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> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1882403&group_id=195382&atid=953220


I see. I suppose the --nohost option is meant to be an easy way of dealing
with mirrors, limited to hosts that serve files in exactly the same
directory structure? I was thinking of using symlinks for that purpose,
manually put in the cache directory for host/path prefixes that are known to
have identical content. Symlinks form a security risk so I should still add
a check that prevents pointing away from cache, or maybe away from a list of
allowed paths, but that is a different matter - the approach should already
work. Granted it takes a little more work to make these links, although of
course I would suggest to script it, but it is definitely safer than setting
all hosts equal. Compare the old --flat option that went as far as stripping
away everything but the filename itself, and then consider a common file
like index.html.

The --mirror option, if I see it correctly, prepends a host/path prefix to
every requested file. I can't quite figure out the use from the patch
summary. Is it your aim to configure at proxy level which mirror is used to
download packages from? Wouldn't the same be achieved by setting all mirrors
equal by the above symlink approach?

Gj