All protocols are, to some degree or another. Especially when you look at all the irrelevant complexity of a full implementation.
Sometimes there's no good answers. -- Raul On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Eric Furman <ericfur...@fastmail.net> wrote: > Yea, but ftp is a shitty protocol that should have died > a merciful death a long time ago so.... > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015, at 06:07 AM, Marc Peters wrote: >> Am 11/16/15 um 12:00 schrieb Stefan Wollny: >> > Hi there, >> > >> > I may be wrong but I thought usage of ftp to get information and to >> > download packages is discouraged. I just noticed (after having done a >> > fresh install of amd64-current) reading the welcome mail "Welcome to >> > OpenBSD 5.8!" that the ftp-protocol is still given. >> > >> > Instead >> > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/packages >> > shouldn't this rather be >> > http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/packages >> >> ftp is still a valid option for packages. The installation via ftp is >> not supported anymore. >> >> >> Marc
