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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:15:01 +0200
From:      Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Carlos_Mendes_Lu=EDs?= <jonny@jonny.eng.br>
Cc:        freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FTP Mirrors please provide HTTP access
Message-ID:  <20090923081500.GG54962@droso.net>
In-Reply-To: <4AB3D1C3.40205@jonny.eng.br>
References:  <20090918111931.GB47480@valentine.liquidneon.com> <4AB3D1C3.40205@jonny.eng.br>

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On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:30:27PM -0300, Joo Carlos Mendes Lus wrote:
> http://ftp2.br.freebsd.org/ has been alive for a long time, but rooted=20
> at ftp://ftp2.br.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
>=20
> Should we change it now or at some specific date?

For consistency it would be nice to have the same root for all mirrors,
so I'd say just change it when you have a few minutes.

Thanks,
-erwin

>=20
>=20
> 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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> >  =20
>=20
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Erwin Lansing                                   http://droso.org
Prediction is very difficult
especially about the future                    erwin@FreeBSD.org

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