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

Reply: Shawn Webb : "Re: git: 9c59988175ff - main - bsdinstall: prefer HTTP"
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From: Philip Paeps <philip_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:50:19 UTC

On 2024-02-15 22:40:19 (+0800), Shawn Webb wrote:
> 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://.

Because https:// only adds work.  And work is heat.

bsdinstall uses the MANIFEST to confirm integrity.

If your bsdinstall and MANIFEST are from a trustworthy source, anything 
downloaded over http:// will be trustworthy.  Just as trustworthy, in 
fact, as anything downloaded over ftp://.

Philip