Differential D10015

Drop warning about HTTPS-only master sites
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Authored by AMDmi3 on Mar 15 2017, 4:16 PM.

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marcus

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rP437200: - Remove useless warning

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The web is steadily moving to HTTPS-only:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/10/18/halfway-there-firefox-users-now-visit-over-50-of-pages-via-https/

so having only HTTPS download urls is normal and actually inevitable novadays. Drop the annoying warning, as there's not much a maintainer can or should do about it.

If HTTPS actually poses any problems to users behind a proxy, and we want to help them, we need to provide HTTP mirror for all distfiles in a centralized way. We actually do with distcache.freebsd.org.

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AMDmi3 created this revision.Mar 15 2017, 4:16 PM

Herald added a subscriber: mat. · View Herald TranscriptMar 15 2017, 4:16 PM

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B8062: Diff 26278.Mar 15 2017, 4:16 PM

AMDmi3 added a reviewer: marcus.Mar 15 2017, 4:18 PM

(not really related, but the "users behind a proxy" thing was because before 8.4, libfetch did not support going through a proxy for HTTPS.)

In D10015#206872, @mat wrote:

(not really related, but the "users behind a proxy" thing was because before 8.4, libfetch did not support going through a proxy for HTTPS.)

Well that is related. So we don't have a need for that check at all.

Closed by commit rP437200: - Remove useless warning (authored by AMDmi3). · Explain WhyMar 29 2017, 1:36 PM

This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.

AMDmi3 mentioned this in rP437200: - Remove useless warning.