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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:46:19 +0200
From:      Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Deprecating ftpd in the FreeBSD base system?
Message-ID:  <20200917144619.GM53210@home.opsec.eu>
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Hi!

> > I've been advocating removing FTP (and HTTP) from libfetch as well. People
> > should be using HTTPS only.

> Isn't this a bit too much? I often find myself in need to download
> something starting with "http://" or "ftp://" and use fetch for this.

It's a bit too much. Deprecating it, 'add --really if you really
want to use http/ftp' would be more useful for the common
sys-admin 8-)

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