ports/82309: option to download ports via http only

[vaidab at Safe-mail.net]

>Number:         82309
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       option to download ports via http only
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          wish
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 16 08:00:32 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Vaida Bogdan
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p2 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD angelique.ro 5.4-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p2 #18: Wed Jun 15 07:12:13 UTC 2005 root at angelique.ro:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ANGELIQUE i386
>Description:
        I am in a campus where ftp is filtered and I would like an option to choose the protocol by which ports are fetched.
        e.g. define PORTS_USE_HTTP_ONLY="yes" in make.conf

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