[arch-dev-public] Poor man's mirror redirector

[Pierre Schmitz]

Hi all,

I wrote a simply redirector script for fun*. It uses geoip to redirect you
to a random Arch mirror in your country; but only if that mirror has synced
within the last 24h. It is located at https://downloads.archlinux.de/ So
you can for example download an iso using this URL:
https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/2010.05/archlinux-2010.05-netinstall-i686.iso
or simply redirect to a dir like https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/

It's probably not that useful and don't even think about using that url in
pacman. It will redirect you to a random mirror on every request no matter
if that mirror is up or has this file. (also pacman doesn't seem to handle
https; but once could use the curl xfer command (wget has poor https
support too))

However, a possible usage might be to use this for simpler iso download.

Greetings,

Pierre

*)
https://git.archlinux.de/www.archlinux.de.git/tree/pages/GetFileFromMirror.php

-- 
Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre