Video mirror redirector
=======================

This fulfills a simple need: Redirecting people on to the closest mirror
of many. It was specifically written for Debconf 13, but should be useable
for any kind of dumb HTTP mirror.

It is based on http.debian.net (https://github.com/rgeissert/http-redirector),
but heavily modified, since we do not need most of what a Debian mirror needs.
You will most likely need some local tweaking of e.g. the mirror list; things
are a lot more hard-coded than in the original

Getting started
===============

Required packages:
    libcgi-simple-perl
    libgeo-ip-perl
    libwww-perl
    wget

Run ./update.sh, it will download the geoip databases, the mirrors
list, build the database used by the redirector, and check the mirrors
for errors.

Check the first lines of redir.pl for the invocation (or look at the
example below.)

Real life testing
=================

Here's the Apache snippet we used during Debconf 13:

    AddHandler cgi-script .pl
    Options +ExecCGI

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /redir.pl?url=$1 [L]

Credits
=======

"This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from
http://maxmind.com/"