Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:56:07 +0100 (CET) From: freebsd@oldach.net (Helge Oldach) To: freebsd@quinteiro.org (Jose Quinteiro) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deprecation of the ftp support in pkg Message-ID: <202201240956.20O9u7KF023714@nuc.oldach.net> In-Reply-To: <57ef0dec-bf31-9782-f675-8740816c05b6@quinteiro.org> from Jose Quinteiro at "23 Jan 2022 22:40:03"
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Jose Quinteiro wrote on Mon, 24 Jan 2022 07:40:03 +0100 (CET): > On 1/23/22 13:12, Helge Oldach wrote: > > Stefan Esser wrote on Sun, 23 Jan 2022 21:08:30 +0100 (CET): > >> Am 23.01.22 um 18:12 schrieb Jose Quinteiro: > >>> On 1/23/22 09:06, tech-lists wrote: > >>>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 08:55:09AM -0800, Jose Quinteiro wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> You can run HTTP on a non-standard port. For example, 8080 is commonly > >>>>> used. As an added bonus, this means that the HTTP server need not run as > >>>>> root. > >>>> > >>>> Unless I'm mistaken, there is no web server in base. There is though, an > >>>> ftp server. > >>> > >>> Touche. I wouldn't mind having Thttpd in base. > >>> https://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ > >> > >> An interesting idea, we have it as a port in www/thttpd. > > > > Does thttpd support SSL in the meantime? I suspect that is an option people would ask for instantly. > > > It does not. This is by design. It is really meant to be as small and > simple as possible. www/webfs is significantly simpler and smaller (5k LOC compared to thttpd's 17k) and lacks SSL as well. I'd say importing NetBSD's or OpenBSD's httpd would be the better option then - www/obhttpd is in ports already. Apart from serving pkg purposes (as discussed here) it will bring in a resonable http server and feature parity with *BSD. Kind regards Helge
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