Commenting from the sideline is easy so after my first mirror discussion, i started working on a primitive mirror.

The result is this: Mirror

It works like this: after a request the mirror tries to load the page from cache.

• If it has the file (no matter what the age is) it serves it promptly. It then checks the age and refreshes the cached file if it's older than 2 minutes (you are than already viewing the older doc).
• If it doesn't have the file in cache, it loads it from perlmonks.org to cache and then serves it. This takes about 1 or 2 secs.

All form actions are routed to perlmonks.org and thus make you leave the mirror.
You may use it if you want to (it gets faster & more up-to-date when more people use it). I'd be more than happy to hear any comments.

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