HTTPS support in APT
Registered by
Thom May
Currently apt only supports http and ftp. https should be added to enabled secure access to repositories.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Started
- Approver:
- Michael Vogt
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Thom May
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Michael Vogt
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Deployment
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Michael Vogt
- Completed by
Whiteboard
review: looks OK now -- smurf
Ideally with a switch to libcurl, the API interface should be checked to allow HTTP/1.1 persistent connections and pipelining. This would reduce the overhead when downloading many files from a single archive, since the TCP connection would be reused avoiding setup+tear-down costs. -sladen, 2006-11-21
mvo: work has started in http://
mvo: uploaded as part of apt_0.6.46.4ubuntu5 (apt-transport-
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