On 2017-01-06, Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 06:50:38PM -0800, jungle boogie wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> With all the recent changes to supporting https on the various mirrors, does >> that mean https may also be used with the PKG_PATH variable? > > Yes.
It was already possible for those mirrors which supported it. Performance won't be ideal though, there's no pipelining or session resumption - it needs to do a full TLS negotiation for each package fetched (note that pkg_add -u fetches at least the start of the tgz for *every* package which you have installed on the system). If this becomes more popular the 4096-bit keys used on some mirrors may become a bit unwieldy :)
