doughnuts on a fish hook

Magnus chrish at trilug.org
Wed Aug 27 17:17:54 UTC 2003


On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 08:47  AM, Paul Gear wrote:

> Better than Daniel's recent suggestion, IMHO is the useNoSSLForPackages
> option.  Point all of your servers at the same squid proxy, turn on the
> use no SSL option, and all is well.
>
> On that note, there's no good reason for packages to be downloaded via
> SSL, since they're all GPG signed anyway.  Can we have
> useNoSSLForPackages=1 made the default in the next version of RHL?

Well except that you're passing authentication data in the clear.

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C. Magnus Hedemark
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"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink 
what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." - Mark Twain
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