Web mirror list

[Lorenzo Cappelletti]

Hi everybody,

Noel noticed in a private message that a list of the web site mirrors is 
not available on the site.  I was very suprised about that because I
believed that download/mirrors.html does collect the web mirrors.  This 
is evidently not true, even I can create a web mirror page with the 
present WML code in a snap.  It probably happend that I forgot to 
generate this page or that I had something different in my mind.

Anyway, having a few thoughts about this topic, I came to the conclusion 
that I need your help to make a decision.

IMO, a mirror link should be at hand or the user won't click on it and 
use the mirror.

A very good solution is provided on the Debian site: a drop-down list on
the top-right corner which makes the jump to a mirror a fuss of.  But is
makes use of CGI.  We don't know if our mirror partners have (or are
willing to) enable the CGI support.  Note that the latter may be worked
out by always executing the CGI script on the www.gnupg.org site.

Another solution would be to place a link in the same place as of the 
drop-down list which points to a web mirror list page, where a user can 
choose their nearest mirror.

What do you think?

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