ports/82309: option to download ports via http only

[Vasil Dimov]

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On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:51:59AM -0400, vaidab at Safe-mail.net wrote:
> >Description:
>         I am in a campus where ftp is filtered and I would like an option to choose the protocol by which ports are fetched.
>         e.g. define PORTS_USE_HTTP_ONLY="yes" in make.conf

To avoid binding only to http and ftp protocols I suggest that it would
be better to have PORTS_FETCH_PROTOCOLS= or just FETCH_PROTOCOLS= that
contains a list of allowed protocols. It will just skip sites that do
not start with one of the strings specified in this variable. For
example:
PORTS_FETCH_PROTOCOLS=http://
will skip ftp://ftp.foo.org/x/y/z from a list of sites like:
http://a/b/c ftp://ftp.foo.org/x/y/z http://bar/baz

Or even we can have similar _REJECT variable in addition that removes
only sites that start with specified strings.

Does this sound reasonable?

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