Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 13:53:29 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 270878] www/polipo: deprecate port and schedule removal [maintainer update] Message-ID: <bug-270878-7788@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D270878 Bug ID: 270878 Summary: www/polipo: deprecate port and schedule removal [maintainer update] Product: Ports & Packages Version: Latest Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: Individual Port(s) Assignee: ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: frank@harz.behrens.de Created attachment 241527 --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=3D241527&action= =3Dedit patch for port deprecation The original software author writes on the project homepage: "Polipo is no longer maintained When it was first written, Polipo was probably the best HTTP proxy availabl= e. Since then, the web has changed, and HTTP proxies are no longer useful: most traffic is encrypted, and a web proxy merely acts as a dumb intermediary for encrypted traffic. Polipo will no longer be maintained. Here are some alternatives: * if you need your HTTP traffic to originate from a remote IP address, use a VPN or a SOCKS5 proxy; * if you need better caching than your browser provides, use a better brows= er; * if you need to share your cache between different user-agents or different users, you're sadly out of luck; * if you need HTTP/1.1 pipelining, you're out of luck. Much of the performa= nce can be recovered by using HTTP/2 or 3, but, sadly, HTTP/2 and 3 require encryption without supporting opportunistic encryption, which makes them difficult to deploy in many environments." So prepare the port for removal. --- Comment #1 from Bugzilla Automation <bugzilla@FreeBSD.org> --- Maintainer informed via mail --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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