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Re: Several download mirrors appear defunct

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:52:33 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> Thanks for pointing this out and sorry for this. I'll clean up my test
> script and make sure it detects these flaws. It has probably been like 10
> years since I last touched it... :-/

Done. I stripped over 32 (!) dead or wrong servers from the list to check and
I made the check a lot stricter == it checks for ether a HTTP 200 response
code or a successful curl -I on its FTP URL.

This gave us a much shorter list but it should now be much more reliable.

If this isn't enough to assert the quality I guess I'll just ditch the mirrors
completely. Let's keep an eye on this and see how it develops.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2013-11-25