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Re: https ? why?

 

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 01:39:33PM -0700, Monty Taylor wrote:
> Agree. But, as another for instance, having download tarballs only
> accessible via https makes it a bit harder for places where you're
> grabbing those via wget or the like (you have to pass the
> ignore-invald-cert option)

But tarballs are actually available via HTTP. Or, to be more general,
any file available via HTTPS in the librarian is also available via
HTTP. If you visit 

    https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+download

you'll notice that the links are actually HTTP links.
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