[Mldonkey-users] [patch #4791] web_infos: New type geoip.dat, save files to local disk, re-download only if file on server is newer

[spiralvoice]

Follow-up Comment #1, patch #4791 (project mldonkey):

I asked the people at maxmind.com:
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My question now is, do you allow us to perform a HTTP HEAD
request on your webserver when MLDonkey starts to get the
"last-modified" header of GeoIP.dat.gz. With that MLDonkey
determines if the file was updated by checking the file creation
date of the local copy of GeoIP.dat.gz.
Users can choose to de-activate GeoIP support completely,
in this case no request will be sent to your servers.

MLDonkey will send an user agent in the style "MLDonkey/2.7.2"
so you can determine the load it puts on your servers. 
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Today I received an positive answer:
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This should be fine, since you are checking the
header before downloading, so it shouldn't overload
the server, and we can monitor the traffic since
you are sending a identifying user agent string.
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