Re: Equivalent functionality when FTP gets shut down

On Tue, 23 May 2017, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> to be shut down. I'm all fine with that, but I'd like to request that the
> indices of the HTTP servers be updated to be able to show the targets of
> symlinks.

In general, Debian has no control over which http server will be used by
a mirror.  There are exceptions, but those are few (security.d.o, for
example).

> For example, it's convenient to be able to see what the
> {oldstable,stable,testing} links point to ay any given time, given that it's
> not too seldom that I forget what the different Debian names mean, or when I
> just haven't kept myself updated for a while:

You could try these resources, they might help:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases
https://www.debian.org/releases/