[rsbac] FTP mirror of /kernels dir needed

Amon Ott rsbac@rsbac.org
Tue Aug 6 09:38:01 2002


On Monday, 5. August 2002 16:43, Tycho Fruru wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 09:59, Amon Ott wrote:
> > On Sunday, 4. August 2002 22:29, Tycho Fruru wrote:
> > > > There seem to be quite a few people who have problems with these 
large 
> > files 
> > > > through HTTP. Who of you could provide an FTP mirror of this subdir?
> > > I can set up a HTTP mirror if you want but FTP unfortunately is not
> > > possible (security yadda yadda why don't we just kill FTP :-). Your call
> > > whether you want this or not :-)
> > 
> > Thank you, the problem is the missing reget in HTTP.
> 
> (I know this is offtopic, but this is a common misunderstanding about
> HTTP and its features)
> 
> Actually HTTP has this "reget" capability (and in a very flexible form
> as well), but unfortunately most browsers are still missing it -
> download managers often do support it though :
> 
> [snippet from RFC2616, describing HTTP/1.1]

Thanks for clearing that up. I should probably make a note about it on the 
download page.

Amon.
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