[Bug 270878] www/polipo: deprecate port and schedule removal [maintainer update]
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 13:53:29 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=270878 Bug ID: 270878 Summary: www/polipo: deprecate port and schedule removal [maintainer update] Product: Ports & Packages Version: Latest Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: Individual Port(s) Assignee: ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: frank@harz.behrens.de Created attachment 241527 --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=241527&action=edit patch for port deprecation The original software author writes on the project homepage: "Polipo is no longer maintained When it was first written, Polipo was probably the best HTTP proxy available. Since then, the web has changed, and HTTP proxies are no longer useful: most traffic is encrypted, and a web proxy merely acts as a dumb intermediary for encrypted traffic. Polipo will no longer be maintained. Here are some alternatives: * if you need your HTTP traffic to originate from a remote IP address, use a VPN or a SOCKS5 proxy; * if you need better caching than your browser provides, use a better browser; * if you need to share your cache between different user-agents or different users, you're sadly out of luck; * if you need HTTP/1.1 pipelining, you're out of luck. Much of the performance can be recovered by using HTTP/2 or 3, but, sadly, HTTP/2 and 3 require encryption without supporting opportunistic encryption, which makes them difficult to deploy in many environments." So prepare the port for removal. --- Comment #1 from Bugzilla Automation <bugzilla@FreeBSD.org> --- Maintainer informed via mail -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.