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Poster:	pg_	Date:	March 03, 2004 01:51:46pm
Forum:	freecache	Subject:	Any way to contact admin of a freecache site?

Thanks to everyone involved in the Freecache effort. It's really a godsend.

I'm wondering if there's any way to contact the admin of a particular freecache site. For some reason, audio/x-mpeg files are being served as text/html (but only from one server). It's simple to fix, but I don't know how to track down the person to contact. Does the main Freecache server have any kind of technical contact info about the participating cache sites?

Thanks,
Nick

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Poster:	Ralf Muehlen	Date:	March 04, 2004 03:07:42am
Forum:	freecache	Subject:	Re: Any way to contact admin of a freecache site?

The MIME types are handled by freecache.cgi and do not depend on the local mime.types of a particular FreeCache host.

Most likely the MIME type was wrong on the originating web site. FreeCache preserves that MIME type.

What's the URL in question?

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Poster:	pg_	Date:	March 04, 2004 09:18:56am
Forum:	freecache	Subject:	Re: Any way to contact admin of a freecache site?

Ralf, thanks for your quick reply. I have a rudimentary mirroring system of my own, so the server from which a freecache site gets a particular file will vary. However, I have just verified that each of my mirror servers are properly serving mp3 files as audio/mpeg.

The freecache URL that is serving the file as text/html is:
http://sls-310-lnx.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/freecache.cgi/md5/a0b359dfe265f94f828dd4ab7a5d19ac/209.237.232.190/text-html/WeFunk_Show_318_2004-02-13.mp3

The URL I'm using on my site is:
http://freecache.org/http://www.wefunkradio.com/mirror/WeFunk_Show_318_2004-02-13.mp3

The URL http://www.wefunkradio.com/mirror/WeFunk_Show_318_2004-02-13.mp3 redirects to one my mirror servers, chosen randomly at the time of the request.

So I don't think it's a problem with the file being improperly served at the source (although if one of my mirror servers was misconfigured several weeks ago and fixed in the meantime, that could have happened without my knowing). Is there another explanation for what could have happened?

Would the best thing to do at this point be to delete the cached file via the new delete links on the freecache site, wait for it to be re-cached, and then see if it's cached properly?

Thanks again,
Nick

This post was modified by pg_ on 2004-03-04 17:08:11

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Poster:	Ralf Muehlen	Date:	March 08, 2004 05:22:08am
Forum:	freecache	Subject:	Re: Any way to contact admin of a freecache site?

I got a 404 when tried your URL. I deleted the file in question; so if you it gets cached again FreeCache should pick up the correct MIME type.