mod_autoindex with metalinks for the mirrorbrain

[Dr. Peter Poeml]

Hi,

I had a funny idea this morning.

With an enhanced mod_autoindex, Apache's file listings can integrate
metalinks. Look here:

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0-Beta1/iso/cd/

With transparent negotiation that I am so keen on, this would eventually
be of lesser importance, but for now it is handy addition to the
metalink generator I think, and it increases visibility of metalinks.

Peter
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SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
Research & Development

[Bram Neijt]

Think that would be great, but I'm not sure it is really helpfull to
be honest: if you have mirrors, you will probably have some kind of
mirror management system and not use something as basic as
mod_autoindex.

So I think there won't be allot of people who will be able to use
this. Still looks very cool! So don't listen to me if you have some
time left ;-)

Bram

[Peter Poeml]

Hi Bram,

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:59:37PM +0200, Bram Neijt wrote:
>
> Think that would be great, but I'm not sure it is really helpfull to
> be honest: if you have mirrors, you will probably have some kind of
> mirror management system and not use something as basic as
> mod_autoindex.

In principal yes - I also put the links (manually) onto the wiki sites
listing download location for the openSUSE products.

But mod_autoindex turns out to be very helpful at least for my testing,
here. There is _always_ a metalink, like that :-)

I'm a bit curious how search engines and crawlers will deal with it.
robots.txt exclusion does seem to take some time to be picked up...

> So I think there won't be allot of people who will be able to use
> this. Still looks very cool! So don't listen to me if you have some
> time left ;-)
>
> Bram

Don't worry, I had already done it, and it didn't take long ;)
(And I'll publish the module once I made sure that I didn't do anything
wrong with the license.)

Thank you for the feedback!

Peter

> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Dr. Peter Poeml <po...@suse.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had a funny idea this morning.
> >
> > With an enhanced mod_autoindex, Apache's file listings can integrate
> > metalinks. Look here:
> >
> > http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0-Beta1/iso/cd/
> >
> > With transparent negotiation that I am so keen on, this would eventually
> > be of lesser importance, but for now it is handy addition to the
> > metalink generator I think, and it increases visibility of metalinks.
> >
> > Peter
> > --
> > "WARNING: This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful!"
> >
> > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
> > Research & Development
> >
>

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