FTP Mirrors please provide HTTP access

[João Carlos Mendes Luís]

http://ftp2.br.freebsd.org/ has been alive for a long time, but rooted 
at ftp://ftp2.br.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/

Should we change it now or at some specific date?


Brad Davis wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A few of us would like to request that all FTP mirrors start allowing
> HTTP access to the same URL. What we are looking for is the path to be
> the same. i.e. only the the protocol should change.
>
> For example, we should be able to change:
>
> ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/dits-2.2.34.tar.gz
>
> into:
>
> http://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/dits-2.2.34.tar.gz
>
>
> If you run a FTP mirror, please set this up. If you are worried about
> running something big like Apache, perhaps running a smaller HTTP server
> like thttpd would work for you.
>
>
> Regards,
> Brad Davis
> (with admins hat on)
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