Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:42:15 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: kamikaze@bsdforen.de (Dominic Fandrey) Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /pub/FreeBSD or /FreeBSD Message-ID: <201011091342.oA9DgF5V078407@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <4CD94DB1.3030809@bsdforen.de>
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Dominic Fandrey wrote: > On 09/11/2010 13:48, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > It is desirable that all FTP mirrors also offer the data > > via HTTP (and possibly also rsync or other protocols), > > but it is not a "must". So, it is not surprising that > > some mirrors do not support HTTP. > > 3 of these 4 however have HTTP support. Shouldn't they follow the > expected pattern if they support HTTP? Yes, that would be desirable. The HTTP code in sysinstall uses the same paths as the FTP code. > Probably their HTTP server just doesn't follow Symlinks. Maybe, I don't know. I can only say for sure that it works fine on ftp7.de.freebsd.org because I wrote the CGI program that implements the HTTP access to the FTP tree. :-) > I also encountered this with other mirrors, I just didn't bother > to test them all. Maybe I'll do a small probing script and provide > a complete list. You're not the first one who does that. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "I have stopped reading Stephen King novels. Now I just read C code instead." -- Richard A. O'Keefe
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