also sprach Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> [2004.10.20.1107 +0200]: > Because in Apache you can manipulate Error-Messages, it is > possibel. The problem is only the TimeOut of 'apt-get' if the > requested Server is not fast enough. That's why there should be streaming going on. This has been my major problem with apt-cacher, which I am trying to solve... > I hve done this already in a php-Script, but unfortunatly my > apt-404-proxy-cgi does download the File and then forward it to > apt-get. Yeah, this is not ideal. However, I think it would be trivial to implement. Here's the pseudo-code. I assume that $RPATH and $LPATH contain the path appended to a mirror and $LPATH the local filesystem path. $MIRROR is a mirror. These variables should be set from the CGI environment as much as possible, and MIRROR comes from a conffile. And: this is shell... :) #!/bin/sh -e echo 200 OK echo Content-type: application/x-debian-package echo exec wget -O - $MIRROR/$RPATH | tee $LPATH Would this work? > Hmmm for those files I have a cronjob, so there are allways the > newest versions availlable. This is also a possibility, but will be hard to get in sync properly with the mirrors... > > How do you send the newly retrieved file instead of the static file > > present on the filesystem? Essentially, this is the only need for > > a proxy, which could be implemented with a RewriteRule and a CGI. Or > > maybe apache can do this somehow? > > ??? - 'apache' allow to use CGI to serve Errors. I am almost sure it does. > If an error occurs, the Refer URL is paste to the Error-404-CGI. > and while the CGI download the file from a Debian-Mirror, it can > stream the Error-404 as "application/x-debian-package" while > rewriting the HTTP-Header from 404 to 200. See above. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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