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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:27:16 +0100
From: Rudolf Cejka <cejkar@fit.vutbr.cz>
To: Cristian KLEIN <cristi@net.utcluj.ro>
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Subject: Re: RFC: accessing FTP tree through HTTP
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Cristian KLEIN wrote (2008/01/27):
> all) don't give access to the FTP tree through HTTP. For example, if I type 
> in my browser http://ftp.freebsd.org, I get the FreeBSD Project Page, 
> whereas I would have expected a directory listing of the FTP tree (like 
> http://ftp1.ro.freebsd.org/).

The other method is to use /pub URI, for example
http://www.cz.freebsd.org/pub/.

> I would like to know whether there is a specific reason why not many 
> mirrors implement this. If there is no specific reason, could we perhaps 
> make this ???standard??? for FreeBSD mirrors?

I'm afraid that there is too many reponsible persons to do that.

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Rudolf Cejka <cejkar at fit.vutbr.cz> http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~cejkar
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology
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