Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:59:49 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>, "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, Calvin NG <calvinng@brel.com>, Sean Chittenden <sean-freebsd-stable@chittenden.org>, Jeff Kletsky <Jeff+freebsd@wagsky.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_version perl hacker project Message-ID: <15078.58981.52059.986092@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010425023146.B54713@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104230806060.27435-100000@wildside.wagsky.com> <20010423231827.A19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424142340.E5216@brel.com> <20010424014833.B19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424120052.H89156@xor.obsecurity.org> <200104241907.f3OJ7u103414@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010424123517.A90547@xor.obsecurity.org> <2001@=> <20010424134637.A10180@rand.tgd.net> <20010425023146.B54713@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> types: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:46:37PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > I get that quite often and have been for a few years. Are you > > sure that an HTTP method couldn't be made available? ftp is an > > expensive protocol because it's interactive, not to mention that the > > protocol designers didn't have firewalls in mind. HTTP, though less > > efficient in terms of data transfer for large files, is much easier to > > program, distribute, scale, etc. Thoughts? -sc > > This is a legitimate concern, and possibly enough to convince us to > finally go ahead with migrating the advisories to the website :-) It shouldn't be. Any reasonable scripting language should have a tool for fetching things from a url in it's library that handles FTP as well as HTTP urls. Possibly better, since FTP servers don't have a redirect mechanism. If the FTP site uses some obscure mechanism like accounts, that might be a problem. But I don't think that's the case here. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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