/pub/FreeBSD or /FreeBSD

[Oliver Fromme]

Dominic Fandrey wrote:
 > On 09/11/2010 13:48, Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > It is desirable that all FTP mirrors also offer the data
 > > via HTTP (and possibly also rsync or other protocols),
 > > but it is not a "must".  So, it is not surprising that
 > > some mirrors do not support HTTP.
 > 
 > 3 of these 4 however have HTTP support. Shouldn't they follow the
 > expected pattern if they support HTTP?

Yes, that would be desirable.  The HTTP code in sysinstall
uses the same paths as the FTP code.

 > Probably their HTTP server just doesn't follow Symlinks.

Maybe, I don't know.  I can only say for sure that it works
fine on ftp7.de.freebsd.org because I wrote the CGI program
that implements the HTTP access to the FTP tree.  :-)

 > I also encountered this with other mirrors, I just didn't bother
 > to test them all. Maybe I'll do a small probing script and provide
 > a complete list.

You're not the first one who does that.  :-)

Best regards
   Oliver

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