svn commit: r464037 - head/irc/znc

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 05:58:31PM -0800, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> This is a note in general, not specifically at you. But https for
> distfiles only achieves 2 things: 1. Privacy against someone snooping
> that you are downloading ZNC (is it really that important?) but still
> can see your DNS and connections to the ZNC site... and 2. It breaks
> proxy caching.  So I don't think MASTER_SITES should be converted to
> https in general.  There's this odd push for it lately but I don't see
> the benefit.

Big +1 (HTTPS for distfiles is somewhat of a PITA for me as well).  Can
we please go back to plain good HTTP?  SHA256 provides enough assurance
against intermittent tampering with the distfiles.

./danfe