Re: Using http mirrors

2013-01-06 Thread Chris Rees
On 6 January 2013 12:13, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: > On 5 January 2013 11:14, Chris Rees wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The submitter of ports/174427 tells me that using http for mirrors is >> faster, due to the lack of authentication etc. >> >> I'm not convinced that the speed difference is huge, but

Re: Using http mirrors

2013-01-06 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On 5 January 2013 11:14, Chris Rees wrote: > Hi all, > > The submitter of ports/174427 tells me that using http for mirrors is > faster, due to the lack of authentication etc. > > I'm not convinced that the speed difference is huge, but can anyone > think of any reasons not to apply this patch? I

Using http mirrors

2013-01-05 Thread Chris Rees
Hi all, The submitter of ports/174427 tells me that using http for mirrors is faster, due to the lack of authentication etc. I'm not convinced that the speed difference is huge, but can anyone think of any reasons not to apply this patch? It will affect large numbers of ports. Chris http://www