From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
Cc: 46482@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46482: [core-updates] u-boot source cannot be downloaded
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:12:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCgkjWU++McEBcsK@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210213183409.GA4220@LionPure>
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 07:34:09PM +0100, Bengt Richter wrote:
> I would prefer something that fits in with mes-philosopy.
> ftp seems old and simple, so I would vote for push-back
> to fix the ftp client involved.
FTP is more complicated than HTTP in that it requires the use of
multiple connections. Additionally, it's often blocked on corporate
networks, whereas HTTP/S is never going to be blocked (HTTPS anyways).
Based on experience in Guix, we have never had bug reports from users
who could not access sources over HTTP/S, but there have been several
reports of problems using FTP. The HTTP/S ports 80 and 443 are basically
the only ports you can depend on being open on a network that is
connected to the internet.
The creator of curl compares them here:
https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/ftp-vs-http.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-13 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-13 2:37 bug#46482: [core-updates] u-boot source cannot be downloaded Danny Milosavljevic
2021-02-13 3:19 ` Leo Famulari
2021-02-13 18:34 ` Bengt Richter
2021-02-13 19:12 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-02-14 3:57 ` Bengt Richter
2021-02-19 15:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
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