Bug 200327

Summary:	HTTP download for release images.
Product:	Services	Reporter:	Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz>
Component:	Core Infrastructure	Assignee:	Cluster Admin <clusteradm>
Status:	Closed Works As Intended
Severity:	Affects Many People	CC:	emaste, peter
Priority:	---
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Edward Tomasz Napierala freebsd_committer

2015-05-19 14:09:06 UTC

Apparently we still don't have a way to download release images over HTTP instead of FTP, and this causes problems - sometimes it's just weird (like, trying to download the image using Safari), sometimes it's a firewall that blocks FTP.

Comment 1 Glen Barber freebsd_committer

2015-08-04 17:18:15 UTC

If you look at the output of 'host -t cname ftp.freebsd.org', and it returns:
  ftp.freebsd.org is an alias for ftp.geo.freebsd.org.

then this is already resolved.

Not all mirrors have HTTP, in particular the mirrors admins@ do not have full control over.

Comment 2 Peter Wemm freebsd_committer

2015-08-05 05:12:29 UTC

All of the "ftp.freebsd.org" site is itself a cluster of mirrors.

It listens on ftp and http.  It doesn't listen on https, but in theory we could do that too.

As Glen said, we don't have any control over 3rd party mirrors.

Comment 3 Peter Wemm freebsd_committer

2015-08-05 16:59:05 UTC

In any case, they do support http, eg:
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/10.2/

If this isn't mentioned (or isn't clear) then its a doc bug and could be updated over there.

Comment 4 commit-hook freebsd_committer

2017-02-05 10:57:11 UTC

A commit references this bug:

Author: allanjude
Date: Sun Feb  5 10:56:15 UTC 2017
New revision: 49926
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49926

Log:
  Switch the download page to HTTPS instead of FTP

  PR:		200327
  Reported by:	trasz
  Reviewed by:	bcr
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3754

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/where.xml