From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 25 7:59:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F06137B424 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 07:59:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 73329 invoked by uid 100); 25 Apr 2001 14:59:49 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15078.58981.52059.986092@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:59:49 -0500 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Sean Chittenden , "Bruce A. Mah" , Calvin NG , Sean Chittenden , Jeff Kletsky , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_version perl hacker project In-Reply-To: <20010425023146.B54713@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <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> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway 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. 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