On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Hannes Magnusson <bj...@php.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just realized that even thought https://pear.php.net/ is
> available, we
> > are still downloading the install-pear-nozlib.phar via http:// in
> > pear/Makefile.frag and makedist
> > Do you happen to know any reason for keeping it that way or is this only
> for
> > historical reasons (maybe pear.php.net did not have proper cert or
> > configured to accept traffic on 443 originally when the download process
> was
> > created) and should be ok to make this more secure(as it would prevent
> MITM
> > attacks).
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I think nice catch *hat tip*.
>
> I'm pretty sure noone cared when this was written ~10 years ago -- we
> didn't even have any certificate issued, not even CAcert at that
> point.
>
>
> -Hannes
>

I will change it to https in master, and if nobody complains about it after
the next PHP7 beta/RC I will backport it to the lower branches.

-- 
Ferenc Kovács
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu

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