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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:33:42 +0300
From:      Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg>
To:        vaidab@Safe-mail.net
Cc:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/82309: option to download ports via http only
Message-ID:  <20050617073342.GA67687@sinanica.bg.datamax>
In-Reply-To: <N1-zpdEoV8Y@Safe-mail.net>
References:  <N1-zpdEoV8Y@Safe-mail.net>

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On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:51:59AM -0400, vaidab@Safe-mail.net wrote:
> >Description:
>         I am in a campus where ftp is filtered and I would like an option to choose the protocol by which ports are fetched.
>         e.g. define PORTS_USE_HTTP_ONLY="yes" in make.conf

To avoid binding only to http and ftp protocols I suggest that it would
be better to have PORTS_FETCH_PROTOCOLS= or just FETCH_PROTOCOLS= that
contains a list of allowed protocols. It will just skip sites that do
not start with one of the strings specified in this variable. For
example:
PORTS_FETCH_PROTOCOLS=http://
will skip ftp://ftp.foo.org/x/y/z from a list of sites like:
http://a/b/c ftp://ftp.foo.org/x/y/z http://bar/baz

Or even we can have similar _REJECT variable in addition that removes
only sites that start with specified strings.

Does this sound reasonable?

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