HTTPS, CPAN, and dist integrity

2015-02-03 Thread Michiel Beijen
Hi, This Saturday at FOSDEM in the hallway I had some discussions with leont, Tux and later also with .. oh I guess that was RJBS? I did not introduce myself, very bad. Hi! Basically I think the whole CPAN setup with 200+ mirrors sounded great back in the 1990s and it is still widely touted as a

Re: HTTPS, CPAN, and dist integrity

2015-02-03 Thread Michiel Beijen
org/ ? -- Michiel Op woensdag 4 februari 2015 heeft Mike Doherty het volgende geschreven: > Doesn't cpan know how to use curl or wget if the system has it installed? > Probably easier to bootstrap TLS support in perl that way. > > -Mike > > On Feb 3, 2015 2:26 PM, "Michiel Beij

Re: HTTPS, CPAN, and dist integrity

2015-02-04 Thread Michiel Beijen
Hi Cosimo, On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Cosimo Streppone wrote: > On 04. feb. 2015 08:17, Michiel Beijen wrote: > >> Can anyone fill in on the feasibility of directing all cpan cients to >> *one* site, i.e. https://cpan.metacpan.org/ ? > > Having multiple mirror

Re: HTTPS, CPAN, and dist integrity

2015-02-04 Thread Michiel Beijen
Hi David, On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:46 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > Having a zillion mirrors is no longer a killer feature - the net is now > much better connected, bandwidth is cheap, and site reliability is much > higher than it used to be. However, the ability to easily create a > mirror is st

Re: MetaCPAN info...

2015-02-05 Thread Michiel Beijen
Leo, On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Leo Lapworth wrote: > We use http://www.fastly.com/ as our CDN (they are amazing) and we > get this for free - always likely to: http://www.fastly.com/about/open-source/ ... > From last month, daily averages served from Fastly... > > 65% hit rate (not back