On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:55 PM Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com> wrote:
> In message <451538de-9427-4584-987b-8e4aa26c2...@freebsd.org>, Daniel > Eischen w > rites: > > > > > > > On Sep 17, 2020, at 11:20 AM, Maxim Sobolev <sobo...@freebsd.org> > wrote: > > > > > > Re: removing HTTP client please no!!! The current drive to "outlaw" > HTTP > > > coming from companies who see all world via web browser. Totally > ignoring > > > the fact that HTTP != HTTPS in particular in cases where reliability > and > > > lower complexity of the system takes precedence over on-the-wire > protocol > > > security. For example, many internal APIs of AWS EC2 are HTTP. > > > > Agree. And remember the mantra: tools, not policy. > > Since there are so many I'll pick this email to reply to. > > libfetch should be designed to call plugins. An https plugin, http plugin, > ftp plugin, sftp plugin, and so on. New protocols are added as needed, > preferably to ports before they are mainstream. Old protocols are removed > and moved to ports. People who still need to use old protocols can install > the port which plugs into libfetch. When a protocol becomes stale it's > forgotten, no longer maintained and simply disappears into the ether. > Thinking in this way, very soon we need to remove TCP, UDP, IP and the list growing, they are all stale. > Given that pkgbase will become a reality at some point the line between > base and ports will blur. I expect at some point some of what we see in > base to simply become ports. As a developer of both base and ports, ports > are much easier to maintain than importing into base. > > That's my vision. > > > -- > Cheers, > Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com> > FreeBSD UNIX: <c...@freebsd.org> Web: https://FreeBSD.org > NTP: <c...@nwtime.org> Web: https://nwtime.org > > The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
