Bandwidth problems at beta time (was: Re: today's UEC report)

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:24:06 -0400 Steven Harms <thisdyingdream at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>I would think the easiest solution to this would be to work with
>upstream / patch apt
> for http auth support, so we could have:
>
>deb https://launchpadid@developers.ubuntu.com
>
>And just have the webserver authenticate against launchpad for
>approved groups.  If Karmic is what we hope,
>next cycle will only have even more demand on the mirrors.
>
This is already supported.  It's what private PPAs use.

Scott K