Re: git: 9c59988175ff - main - bsdinstall: prefer HTTP

Reply: Shawn Webb : "Re: git: 9c59988175ff - main - bsdinstall: prefer HTTP"
In reply to: Ronald Klop : "Re: git: 9c59988175ff - main - bsdinstall: prefer HTTP"
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From: Philip Paeps <philip_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:28:53 UTC

On 2024-02-15 22:06:09 (+0800), Ronald Klop wrote:
> Shouldn’t this be
>
> https://download.freebsd.org/

No.

For hysterical raisins, FTP sites conventionally put FreeBSD under 
/pub/FreeBSD.  HTTP mirrors (including http://ftp.FreeBSD.org) have 
followed that convention.

http://download.FreeBSD.org is a more recent addition, and it has 
FreeBSD under /, not under /pub/FreeBSD.  We could teach nginx to put it 
under /pub/FreeBSD too, but spelling it ftp.FreeBSD.org was less work.

Philip