sysinstall: download via pure http

[Matthew Seaman]

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On 11/03/2010 15:07:07, Eitan Adler wrote:
> instead of "ftp through an http proxy" is it possible to get a pure http mirror?

Yes

happy-idiot-talk:~:% HEAD -uSe http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
HEAD http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
HEAD http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ --> 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:37:05 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.26
Content-Length: 6656
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Client-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:37:06 GMT
Client-Peer: 87.51.34.132:80
Client-Response-Num: 1

You can just access ftp.freebsd.org by HTTP

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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