FTP Mirror Tracker: first steps towards URN

✍ Scribed by M Hamilton; A Novikov

• Book ID: 104273674
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 358 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0140-3664
• DOI: 10.1016/s0140-3664(00)00307-8

✦ Synopsis

FTP Mirror Tracker 1 is a software package (written in Perl and Cϩϩ), which 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.