[Catalog-sig] Mirror list detection/construction - PEP 381

[Jesus Cea]

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On 21/07/10 14:10, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> There should be a reliable way to construct the list for clients.
> Mechanisms could be a static page to scrape, a known url with
> redirect, DNS SRV records or something else.

I am a BIG fan of DNS SRV records (to the point of promoting replacing
MX records, or "www" prefixes in urls), but most resolvers will not
provide them to regular applications (you have no easy ways to query for
a SVR record, using standard APIs). For instance, python applications.
You would need to bundle the "dnspython" library, or something similar.

I would absolutely LOVE to be proved the contrary.

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