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On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 00:13, Roth, Kevin P. wrote: > Another issue here is for those of us behind a corporate (or other > restrictive) firewall that may not even permit UDP pings out the door. > In this setup we usually have to use HTTP downloads through a proxy > server. You might like to see my email "RE: "Mirrors list order is snafued" - What is the order supposedto be?" > The ping method most likely to work is going to be a TCP ping on the > proper port based on protocol (port 80, port 21? for FTP, etc). On the > HTTP side, use the proxy settings if they've been defined, and just do > a HEAD request for the root directory of the mirror site. Dunno what > the FTP equivalent is but it must be similar. TCP won't work either in corporate environments where egress filtering is in place - which is most environments I've seen. Application layer pings are the most robust way. > Or, add a new column for the country. For experimentation, why not use a command line parameter to enable a display choice button. Then we can default it / allow a command line selection / allow an ini file selection for release. > Could we also have an option to sort based on protocol, or better yet > filter the list based on protocol? Being within a corporate network, I > can't easily use FTP or RSYNC, so the HTTP servers are the only > choices for me... Ditto. > Also - as long as we're sharing... When can we have a setup.exe > "update-mode" wizard? After running through all 5 screens of questions > the first time, I shouldn't have to hit next on each of those screens > every time I update. Can we have the first screen just summarize the > saved choices from before, and ask whether I want to update based on > those choices, or whether I need to re-answer all the Q's. It's mostly there. Explore the command line options. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.
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