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

Reply: Philip Paeps : "Re: git: 9c59988175ff - main - bsdinstall: prefer HTTP"
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From: Shawn Webb <shawn.webb_at_hardenedbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:40:19 UTC

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:28:53PM +0800, Philip Paeps wrote:
> 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.

I'm curious to learn why you chose http:// rather than https://.

Thanks,

-- 
Shawn Webb
Cofounder / Security Engineer
HardenedBSD

https://git.hardenedbsd.org/hardenedbsd/pubkeys/-/raw/master/Shawn_Webb/03A4CBEBB82EA5A67D9F3853FF2E67A277F8E1FA.pub.asc