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It looks like I made an incorrect assumption.  The DSU installation
already *is* using HTTP URLs.

I guess I'd better go dig into the logs again, to figure out why it
broke when I was updating a few hundred of them at once.

Lloyd


On 7/28/20 8:59 AM, Lloyd Brown wrote:
> [EXTERNAL EMAIL] 
>
> Is there an easy way to get DSU tools to pull files from linux.dell.com
> via HTTP, instead of HTTPS?
>
> We're trying to use a squid caching proxy, rather than creating our own
> local mirror.  But while something like squid can proxy the HTTPS
> traffic via a CONNECT tunnel, it can't actually cache it.  If we can get
> it to use HTTP, then I'm pretty sure it would be easily cache-able.
>
> The other alternative is to MitM it via squid's sslBump mechanism, but
> I'd *really* rather not do that.
>
> The linux.dell.com server is actually still serving HTTP, at least for
> now (eg. http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/os_independent/ instead
> of https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/os_independent/), so in
> theory, it should be possible.
>
>
-- 
Lloyd Brown
HPC Systems Administrator
Office of Research Computing
Brigham Young University
http://marylou.byu.edu

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