[Yum] HTTP redirects

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 16:05, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi apters and yummers,
> 
> do apt-get/yum support http redirects? If not, wouldn't it be worth
> while to add support for it?
> 
> Other than the classical scenarios where you want redirects, one can
> think of alternative organization of repositories, separating
> meta-data from rpms, splitting repos across hosts, load-balancing etc.

short answer: yes

Long answer:
you can always test this in yum by using urlgrabber.py in the yum
tarball from the command line:

python urlgrabber.py http://myserver.org/myfiles localfilename

I'm also not 100% sure how well the keep-alive will deal with the
redirects. Meaning - it might not keep-alive the redirected connections.
:)

-sv