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From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 11:14:01 +0000
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Subject: Using http mirrors
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Hi all,

The submitter of ports/174427 tells me that using http for mirrors is
faster, due to the lack of authentication etc.

I'm not convinced that the speed difference is huge, but can anyone
think of any reasons not to apply this patch?  It will affect large
numbers of ports.

Chris

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=174427