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LISA 2000 Abstract
FTP Mirror Tracker: A Few Steps Towards URN
Alexei Novikov, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, and Martin Hamilton, Loughborough University, UK
Abstract
FTP Mirror Tracker is a software
package (written in Perl and C++) that enables transparent, user-controlled redirection to the nearest anonymous FTP mirror sites that
are exact replicas of the original source. This redirection can be
achieved by using a Web Cache server or by making HTTP requests to the
FTP Mirror Tracker directly. The Mirror Tracker also has internal URN
support and can be used as a URN resolver for FTP requests. Underlying
the system is a MySQL database recording FTP mirror site details. In
this report we explain how this database is constructed, and show how
it may be used - directly by end users, and under the policy based
control of Web Cache and mirror service administrators.
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