
All Apache Formulae should be updated to use the closer.vgi script to specify downloads rather than a random mirror that could be out of date or compromised. Apache's closer.cgi does periodic health checks. The base URL for the mirror system is http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=#{filepath} e.g.: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/couchdb/1.0.3/apache-couchdb-1.0.3.tar.gz Note: The addition of the "Actually downloading..." message is sub-optimal as the message should probably be emitted in _fetch() rather than fetch(), but I didn't want to change the way Homebrew works today, so I'm leaving this for mxcl & team to sort out or adopt :)