FreeBSD Handbook, error, Chapter 4, 4.5 Using the Ports Collection

[Lowell Gilbert]

Byron Campbell via freebsd-doc <freebsd-doc at freebsd.org> writes:

> Procedure 4.2. Subversion Method
>
> ?????? Check out a copy of the ports tree:
>
> ?????? # svn checkout https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports
>
> To work the URL must be changed; drop the 'https' and use 'svn'
> instead. The correct command is thus:
>
> ?????? # svn checkout svn://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports

Why do you think https doesn't work? I would expect it to work at least
as reliably as svn.