On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:51:08PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > yep it's always been the case. we use plain http requests (e.g. > socket connection && GET <filename> HTTP/0.9, that's all). > > last time i checked, we only had one public mirror using http (in > austria), it was damnedly slow but worked.
A number of mirrors provide http access. Including carroll.cac.psu.edu. They just don't require a username/pass. I generally prefer http rather than ftp. Less overhead. Not to mention that http is generally more secure than ftp because it's designed only to serve pages not allow modification of the filesystem (of course you can use CGIs and what not and of course vulns in Apache could result in allowing this). But in general you aren't going to accidentally configure http to allow write access to something it shouldn't. So IMHO it'd be really nice to update the installer to allow this. I can think of a few times when I ran into the limitation and just setup an ftp server instead. Just make it a TODO for some other release. :) -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion only of her own." -- John Quincy Adams, July 4th, 1821
