From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Oct 10 13:34:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA2437B401; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coe.ufrj.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DAB43E91; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:34:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: from jonny.eng.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by coe.ufrj.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91405D92EF; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:56:51 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: <3DA5DB83.70303@jonny.eng.br> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:56:51 -0300 From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Organization: COPPE/UFRJ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en, pt-BR, pt MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Fromme Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HTTP access to ftpX.freebsd.org References: <200210101942.g9AJgHqx066429@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Oliver Fromme wrote: > Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > > BTW: Is it time to add the http option to the sysinstall? > > I though that HTTP already works with sysinstall for ages. FTP over HTTP proxy. No more than that. > > > If so, then we > > must agree on a format for the directories. I chose to use the > > /pub/FreeBSD as root, so one cannot see anything other than FreeBSD > > files in here. > > Uhm, on "my" server it's exactly the same format as for FTP. > That is, these two URLS refer to exactly the same thing: > > ftp://ftp7.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/README.TXT > http://ftp7.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/README.TXT > > In fact, /pub is a CGI program (written in C for efficiency) > which uses $PATH_INFO to deliver a file or a directory > listing. If anything except /pub/* is accessed, a static > page with some information is delivered. This is a problem in the sense that it blocks partial downloads, don't? One could wget --continue files if needed, or even use some windows downloader. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@jonny.eng.br Networking Engineer jcml@ieee.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message