Rapid dynamic mirroring using metalinks

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Our developments

We are always looking to better our hosting and support. Currently we have a fully functional and secure core system. There are always improvements to be made, and we would love to hear from you if you would like a new feature. The following is a list of ideas. If you think any of these should be implemented, please consider using the feedback link on the left of the screen to suggest it.

• Write a page on the security we use, and possible attacks made impossible.
• Add autoclose option for /add/, so the add windows can automatically close after 5 seconds if they are registered with the DM bookmarklet.
• Add support for URI prefix searches.
• Add support for mime-type searches.

Completed

• 30th of November, 2009: Basic statistics gathering has started and is shown on the front-page.
• 28th of November, 2009: The Google App Engine started to hate the vebose_name keyword arguments we used, wich resulted in 500 errors. Solved now.
• 24th of November, 2009: Dynmirror links in action at http://logfish.net/pr/ccbuild/downloads/
• 14th of September, 2009: Added an option to insert a Coral CDN link for url based metalinks.
• 3rd of September, 2009: Randomize urls in hosted metalinks.
• 25th of August, 2009: Add UserVoice feedback button.

Helping to mirror a file

To help mirror a file, you would have to download the file and publish it's metadata. Here is a small script to do that:

      #!/bin/bash
      echo UNTESTED
      exit 1
      mirrorpath='http://example.com/mirrordir'
      url=$1
      bs=`basename "$url"`
      #Download the file
      wget -O "$bs" "$url"
      #Create MD5 hash
      md5sum "$bs" > "$bs"_md5.txt
      #Post Metadata
      wget http://www.dynmirror.net/add/?url="$mirrorpath/$bs"_md5.txt
      #Done, you are now a registered mirror of that file