apache mirrors

[Ryan Schmidt]

In base/src/port1.0/resources/fetch/mirror_sites.tcl we define the  
apache mirror sites this way:

set portfetch::mirror_sites::sites(apache) {
     http://www.apache.org/dist/
     http://archive.apache.org/dist/
     http://apache.planetmirror.com.au/dist/
     ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/apache/dist/
     ftp://ftp.is.co.za/Apache/dist/
     ftp://ftp.infoscience.co.jp/pub/net/apache/dist/
}

But at

	http://www.apache.org/dist/

it says in bold letters

	Please do not download from apache.org!

And at

	http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/

it says

	Download from your nearest mirror site! Do not download from  
www.apache.org. Please use a mirror site to help us save apache.org  
bandwidth.

There are dozens of mirrors available. Should we add these to our  
apache mirror sites list?

They provide a randomized or perhaps load-balanced download CGI, e.g.:

	http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/apr/apr-0.9.17.tar.bz2

but that doesn't redirect you to the file; it returns an HTML page  
which contains a link to download the file. We could write a wrapper  
PHP script for this and stick it on www.macports.org and use that as  
the first apache mirror download location. This would make better use  
of the available mirrors and only fall back to www.apache.org and the  
rest if the script fails for some reason. I'd be happy to write that  
script if it's decided it's a good idea.