Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:13:28 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, 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: <20010425121328.B78153@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <15078.58981.52059.986092@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:59:49AM -0500 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> <15078.58981.52059.986092@guru.mired.org>
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--O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:59:49AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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 > >=20 > > This is a legitimate concern, and possibly enough to convince us to > > finally go ahead with migrating the advisories to the website :-) >=20 > 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. The concern is that the FTP server is sometimes full, meaning people are denied service to the advisories. Kris --O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE65yHXWry0BWjoQKURArWiAJsHuPn3I5Xfih8F8/6K3HLtk9mqAQCggVSR pThTICaceSqXtcDF7jSoMEY= =Ffo5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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