Re: New redirector

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
> I have reverted the part of this that changes the format for logging,
> because it turned out that it was impossible to wrestle the stackbuilder
> traffic logging onto that format - since stackbuilder uses the
> redirector to log arbitrary downloads, and not just things coming off
> our mirror network. Also it seems that the mirror id primary key can
> change around, and should not be used for logging.

Meh, another misunderstanding there. The primary key doesn't change.
only the mirror index. I got them mixed up.

//Magnus