Re: mirror submission form tightened
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:00:24PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Due to an increasing amoung of HTML FORM spam, I've made the mirror
> submission script try to connect to HTTP and FTP sites/URLs submitted
> and find the project/trace/ftp-master.debian.org file.
>
> This means that:
> * we should hopefully not get any spam via that any more
> * we should hopefully get only valid submissions via the script
> * it's impossible to submit a site to which cgi.debian.org cannot connect
> to fetch those bits
> * cgi.debian.org will be making a connection or two to a few spam sites,
> but will generally produce a 404 (or a 302 at best)
>
> I think this is a good compromise. It probably should have been done ages ago.
Oh, and while I was at it, I also made it insist on resolving the site
name and and mirrors-from name in DNS. There's no point in accepting
sites whose maintainers can't spell those two right :)
--
Josip Rodin
mirrors@debian.org
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