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Subject: Re: Probleme de telechargement/Problem to download
To: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>, marvin nurit <verde@live.fr>
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On 01/10/2015 21:05, Quartz wrote:
>> Hi, i've a problem, i'm student and my student connection blocks ftp
>> and torrent connections, so i would like to know if there's another
>> way to download freebsd? Thank you in advance for your reply.
>
> Assuming only actual ftp connections are blocked (and not also any URL
> with 'ftp' in it), you should be able to visit:
>
> http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/
> http://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/
> http://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/
> http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/
> ...etc.
>
> A lot (but not all) of the main mirrors support http connections if you
> just change the protocol header.

Take a look at the Handbook page on mirrors:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html

Primary mirrors 4, 10 and 14 support http, as do various country mirrors 
including http://ftp1.fr.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ (which also supports 
rsync).


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