Sites which are used to search for mirrors - this is useful for Hget.

1. http://findfiles.com
Typical mirror search looks like this... (Searching for firefox)

http://findfiles.com/list.php?string=firefox-2.0.0.7.tar.gz&db=Mirrors&match=All&search=

This will return a page with search results, this needs to be parsed.

For an exact match, use the following query...

http://findfiles.com/list.php?string=firefox-2.0.0.7.tar.gz&db=Mirrors&match=Exact&search=

2. http://www.filewatcher.com
Supports mirror search. Mirror search looks like...

http://www.filewatcher.com/_/?q=firefox-2.0.0.7.tar.gz

Also supports limiting queries with the size of the file, to get the exact match
this would be needed.

Example...

http://www.filewatcher.com/_/?q=firefox-2.0.0.7.tar.gz&max=9671863

3. http://www.freewareweb.com/ftpsearch.shtml

This site provides a free FTP search. 

A typical search with size limit is like...

http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/ftpsearch.pl?q=firefox-2.0.0.7.tar.gz&s2=9671863

4. http://www.filesearching.com (English mirror of filesearch.ru)

This supports an interface almost identical to the one above and supports
exact and size searches. A typical string looks like...

http://www.filesearching.com/cgi-bin/s?q=firefox-2.0.0.7.tar.gz&x=20&y=12&l=en&t=f&e=on&m=20&o=n&s1=&s2=9671863&d=&p=&p2=

(The param of interest is "s2" which stands for max-size of the file). 
The site returns mostly russian ftp mirrors.

There is more information on such search engines at http://www.ftpsearchengines.com/















 
