/pub/FreeBSD or /FreeBSD

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 09/11/2010 14:42, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> 
> Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>  > On 09/11/2010 13:48, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  > > It is desirable that all FTP mirrors also offer the data
>  > > via HTTP (and possibly also rsync or other protocols),
>  > > but it is not a "must".  So, it is not surprising that
>  > > some mirrors do not support HTTP.
>  > 
>  > 3 of these 4 however have HTTP support. Shouldn't they follow the
>  > expected pattern if they support HTTP?
> 
> Yes, that would be desirable.  The HTTP code in sysinstall
> uses the same paths as the FTP code.
> 
>  > Probably their HTTP server just doesn't follow Symlinks.
> 
> Maybe, I don't know.  I can only say for sure that it works
> fine on ftp7.de.freebsd.org because I wrote the CGI program
> that implements the HTTP access to the FTP tree.  :-)
> 
>  > I also encountered this with other mirrors, I just didn't bother
>  > to test them all. Maybe I'll do a small probing script and provide
>  > a complete list.
> 
> You're not the first one who does that.  :-)

Oh, maybe I /should/ register to the list. A quick search yielded
no results, what would be the right keywords to search the mailing
list for?

Regards,
Dominic


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