Bug#212732: support redirects and interactive authentication (Progeny)

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote:
> I am about to implement geographical/topological Loadbalancing for
> backports.org;  DNS is of no help here, since mirrors may have various
> directories, which will heavily break up apt. 

THen I suggest you put stricter requirements on mirrors just like Debian
does. Setting up supersparrow for mirrors should be trivial (I wonder
why nobody ever did that for Debian).

Wichert.

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