Does Kickstart Support Secure HTTP (port 443)

[Chris Lumens]

> I have been asked to disable port 80 for security reasons.  I use it to 
> supply a kickstart file to other systems on the network for Red Hat 
> Enterprise Linux 4 (update 4).  Trying to get the kickstart with 
> ks=https://ip_address/kickstart_filename.cfg fails.
> 
> Should I expect this to work or not?

No, and it's not limited to kickstart.  The URL fetching code in the
loader does not support HTTPS at all, so you would discover that this
does not work in interactive installs either.

- Chris