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| Summary: | [downloads] Get country information from web client and sort mirrors accordingly | ||
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| Product: | Community | Reporter: | Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster> |
| Component: | Website | Assignee: | phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | kim.moir, pombredanne, richkulp |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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Description
Eclipse Webmaster
Additional concerns and information: > I have a question about this that you just announced in the bug I've > been following about update sites. Randomly choosing sites within a > country might be ok for smaller countries, but for the US there are > quite a few sites, some not so close. Distance is not the biggest factor here, Internet backbone connectivity is. A user in Californina downloading from New York won't feel any pain whatsoever. In some cases, a user in Sunnyvale will have faster access to a mirror in New York than one in Seattle. The backbones of large american Tier-1 providers, like Sprint, MCI's, AT&T and Qwest are one bigass LAN (pardon my french) so the pain of trying to contain a download in the same timezone yields very little benefit. Have a look at these maps: http://global.mci.com/about/network/global_presence/northamerica/ http://www.sprintworldwide.com/english/maps/ http://www.qwest.com/about/qwest/network/ > Plus there is our local shadow > fullmoon which we would want to use over any other mirror. Local mirrors will be taken into consideration before country information. > So how can we handle this where we do want a specific mirror if it is > going to be automatic. The mirror selection page will remain, a "Now downloading from " will display, and the "Save as" dialog will appear. Let me prototype this first, it'll be easier to explain. D. I have a test version of download.php that uses GeoIP to select the best mirror according to the client's IP address. As per comment 1, I decided to not perform an automatic redirection. The list of mirrors is ordered best->worst, according to the countryCode (either supplied, or looked up). The first mirror is a random mirror in the same country followed by a randomly sorted set of mirrors in the same continent. If there are no mirrors in the same country, the mirrors in the same continent are sorted randomly. If client's hostname matches an internal mirror, the internal mirror will always be first, then the country, then continent... You can test these URLs (hit refresh to see the list change): No countryCode specified, looked up via GeoIP. http://phoenix.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.1.1-200509290840/eclipse-SDK-3.1.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz countryCode=us, override GeoIP http://phoenix.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?countryCode=us&file=/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.1.1-200509290840/eclipse-SDK-3.1.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz countryCode=de - three German mirrors top the list, then european mirrors random http://phoenix.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?countryCode=de&file=/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.1.1-200509290840/eclipse-SDK-3.1.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz countryCode=nz - no mirrors in nz, so list Autralian mirrors first http://phoenix.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?countryCode=nz&file=/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.1.1-200509290840/eclipse-SDK-3.1.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz countryCode=xx - GeoIP failed to lookup the countryCode, so no mirror is proposed, mirrors are sorted alphabetically by continent,country http://phoenix.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?countryCode=xx&file=/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.1.1-200509290840/eclipse-SDK-3.1.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz Just give me SDK and Webtools from the mirror(s) you think is best: http://phoenix.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&file=/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.1.1-200509290840/eclipse-SDK-3.1.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz http://phoenix.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&file=/webtools/downloads/drops/R-1.0-200512210855/wtp-all-in-one-sdk-1.0-linux-gtk.tar.gz Just get me this plugin from the mirror(s) you think is best: http://phoenix.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&file=/eclipse/updates/3.1/plugins/org.eclipse.wst.sse.core_0.7.1.jar Once this has been tested, the download.php will be made Live. D. Closing as FIXED. download.php uses GeoIP to sort the mirrors list according to the client's country. D. |