On 2024-02-15 22:40:19 (+0800), Shawn Webb wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:28:53PM +0800, Philip Paeps wrote:
On 2024-02-15 22:06:09 (+0800), Ronald Klop wrote:
Shouldn’t this be
https://download.freebsd.org/
No.
For hysterical raisins, FTP sites conventionally put FreeBSD under
/pub/FreeBSD. HTTP mirrors (including http://ftp.FreeBSD.org) have
followed
that convention.
http://download.FreeBSD.org is a more recent addition, and it has
FreeBSD
under /, not under /pub/FreeBSD. We could teach nginx to put it
under
/pub/FreeBSD too, but spelling it ftp.FreeBSD.org was less work.
I'm curious to learn why you chose http:// rather than https://.
Because https:// only adds work. And work is heat.
bsdinstall uses the MANIFEST to confirm integrity.
If your bsdinstall and MANIFEST are from a trustworthy source, anything
downloaded over http:// will be trustworthy. Just as trustworthy, in
fact, as anything downloaded over ftp://.
Philip
