[MOBY-dev] Tentative plan for the MOBY Central move

[Mark Wilkinson]

The problem is that i cannot find a way to automatically redirect SOAP  
calls from the old MOBY Central to the new MOBY Central.  This is possibly  
because I do not fully understand the Apache redirect mechanism, but my  
Google searches have told me that redirecting a POST (as we would need to  
do with MOBY Central) is not trivial, and is not supported by any native  
Apache configuration directive.

So... I don't think this change can be "silent". I think we all need to  
update at the same time.

I wish it could be silent!  If you know a way to do it, please tell me,  
because I haven't found a way in my own exploration of the problem...

M




On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:55:55 -0800, Martin Senger  
<martin.senger at gmail.com> wrote:

>> All we need now is a plan to deal with 24 hours of chaos
>
>
> No, we don't. But perhaps I missed something.
>
> I understand that the problem is that our software (our libraries) do not
> have (yet) the ability to redirect to the default moby central  
> automatically
> when its location changes. You already have prepared this ability to the
> Perl libraries and it is a question of few hours to add it to the jMoby
> library. So why not to do these changes now, almost silently, but let the
> libraries point to the old moby center. Then we can announce that in some
> reasonably time, such as a month or several weeks, everybody is advised  
> to
> update their installation in order to get new libraries to their  
> machines.
> Finally, after an announcement period we can switch.
>
> Just my 2c's,
> Martin
>