Re: [PHP-DEV] use https when downloading the pear installer

2015-07-28 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/28/2015 05:22 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > An approach might be to remove the automatic download and > instructing the user to put the file there manually if this is seen > as important. +1 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Maili

Re: [PHP-DEV] use https when downloading the pear installer

2015-07-28 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 17:11 +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > On 07/28/2015 04:45 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > > (and yes - developers doing this might be an interesting targeted > > attack vector. Malicious code there knows where the developer keeps > > the source tree and might inject bad code

Re: [PHP-DEV] use https when downloading the pear installer

2015-07-28 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
On 07/28/2015 04:45 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > (and yes - developers doing this might be an interesting targeted > attack vector. Malicious code there knows where the developer keeps > the source tree and might inject bad code into the codebase which we > notice only with good review of commits

Re: [PHP-DEV] use https when downloading the pear installer

2015-07-28 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 09:32 +0200, Ferenc Kovacs 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

[PHP-DEV] use https when downloading the pear installer

2015-07-27 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
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