[Yum-devel] Fastest mirror selection plugin

[Michael Stenner]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:54:49PM -0800, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Would be nice, but how do you measure the time with url operations: I 
> guess you could grab 1 byte of "something" and time that, but what if the 
> server doesn't support byte ranges? Those would get penalized pretty 
> badly... but hey, maybe that's for a good reason ;)

Well, you could use urlopen, which opens a connection but doesn't
actually read anything.  The problem is that you still need to give a
file to ask for.  I think that's the same with any proxy operation,
though.  You'll need to ask for some file.

					-Michael
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