Re: Provide API for protocol based filtering of mirrors (eg HTTPS and FTPS)

On 22.04.18 03:14, buggyguy wrote:
>It seems Manajaro and Arch mirror list websites provide APIs for protocol filtering.
>
>The three protocols avaialable seem to be FTP, HTTP, HTTPS. However
> pacman-mirrors also allows ftps.  It seems there is no mirror serving over
> FTPS, so it is not available.

note that official debian mirrors must not support HTTPs.

since debian mirrors are provided by community, it's not possible to
provide certificates for *.debian.org safely.
The same applies for FTPS.

>If you do provide these APIs then some one can make reflector or
> pacman-mirros clone for Debian.

what do you need those APIs for? If you need https/ftps, you need unofficial
mirrors.

>Also include apt-transport-https by default in Debian incase users want to
> not download that package over HTTP.

it's in archive, but not installed by default. You can install it manually,
but since the reasons above I doubt it will be made default.