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Date:      Sat, 11 Mar 2017 10:32:20 -0800
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org>,  "ports-secteam@freebsd.org" <ports-secteam@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Ports Management Team <portmgr@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>,  Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>, Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bsd.sites.mk: Do we prefer http or https (or both)
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgneWn%2BCoxoqvvJT1hVQLXD9HMZWMusoNUuAayiGeSCFqw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170311181339.58bcf2a8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
References:  <20170311113355.0f3f8b77@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <20170311121851.715B55859@freefall.freebsd.org> <20170311181339.58bcf2a8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>

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On 11 March 2017 at 09:13, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:18:51 +0000 (UTC) jbeich@freebsd.org (Jan Beich) wrote:
>> Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>> On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 10:53:01 +0100 (CET) Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
>>>> As some of you may have seen, I have done a bit of work on
>>>> bsd.sites.mk recently.
>>>>
>>>> One question I ran into:  If a site offers both HTTPS and HTTP,
>>>> which of the two do we prefer?  (Or do we want to list both?)
>>>
>>> https first for people that run 'make makesum'.
>>
>> It was made MITM-friendly sometime ago.
>>
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/324051
>
> Ugh, can portmgr approve the attached patch?

I can't approve on behalf of portmgr but I'd like to echo this
request on behalf of ports-secteam. Maintainers rarely verify the
hashes that makesum generates.

I wish we can go further and filter out non-HTTPS sites during makesum.


-- 
Eitan Adler



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