svn commit: r464037 - head/irc/znc

Danilo G. Baio dbaio at FreeBSD.org
Sat Mar 10 12:34:01 UTC 2018


On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 08:02:02AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 05:58:31PM -0800, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> > This is a note in general, not specifically at you. But https for
> > distfiles only achieves 2 things: 1. Privacy against someone snooping
> > that you are downloading ZNC (is it really that important?) but still
> > can see your DNS and connections to the ZNC site... and 2. It breaks
> > proxy caching.  So I don't think MASTER_SITES should be converted to
> > https in general.  There's this odd push for it lately but I don't see
> > the benefit.
> 
> Big +1 (HTTPS for distfiles is somewhat of a PITA for me as well).  Can
> we please go back to plain good HTTP?  SHA256 provides enough assurance
> against intermittent tampering with the distfiles.
> 
> ./danfe

I changed all URLs returning 301 Moved Permanently.

$ http-prompt http://znc.in/releases/znc-1.6.6.tar.gz
Version: 0.11.2
http://znc.in/releases/znc-1.6.6.tar.gz> get

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 185
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:15:16 GMT
Keep-Alive: timeout=20
Location: https://znc.in/releases/znc-1.6.6.tar.gz
Server: nginx/1.13.7

<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.13.7</center>
</body>
</html>

-- 
Danilo G. Baio (dbaio)
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