Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:56:51 -0300 From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HTTP access to ftpX.freebsd.org Message-ID: <3DA5DB83.70303@jonny.eng.br> References: <200210101942.g9AJgHqx066429@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote: > Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > > BTW: Is it time to add the http option to the sysinstall? > > I though that HTTP already works with sysinstall for ages. FTP over HTTP proxy. No more than that. > > > If so, then we > > must agree on a format for the directories. I chose to use the > > /pub/FreeBSD as root, so one cannot see anything other than FreeBSD > > files in here. > > Uhm, on "my" server it's exactly the same format as for FTP. > That is, these two URLS refer to exactly the same thing: > > ftp://ftp7.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/README.TXT > http://ftp7.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/README.TXT > > In fact, /pub is a CGI program (written in C for efficiency) > which uses $PATH_INFO to deliver a file or a directory > listing. If anything except /pub/* is accessed, a static > page with some information is delivered. This is a problem in the sense that it blocks partial downloads, don't? One could wget --continue files if needed, or even use some windows downloader. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@jonny.eng.br Networking Engineer jcml@ieee.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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