Subject: Re: Proposal: Sort order for MASTER_SITES
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Rene Hexel <rh@idle.trapdoor.vip.at>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/17/1999 16:29:51
Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> Well, why shouldn't match any of the above the whole url?
> I mean, 'netbsd.at' matches as good as '\*.netbsd.at' (or however many
> backslashes that were).

  This might become a bit problematic as 'netbsd.at' might also be a
part of the pathname of the URL, like in

  http://somwhere.net/pub/mirrors/netbsd.at/foo/bar.tar.gz

  We could, of course, strip the path from the URL to avoid this ...

  Cheers
      ,
   Rene