[tex-live] tlmgr ftp issues?

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

Le 20/05/2010 10:50, Robin Fairbairns a écrit :
> Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:
> 
>> couldn't you just use a mirror that make use of HTTP instead of FTP
> 
> because mirror.ctan.org (for reasons i don't understand) insists on
> quoting only the ftp address for tex.ac.uk
> 
> i wish it wouldn't, but i don't know how to discourage it...
> 
I seem to remember Karl told me that mirror.ctan.org had been modified to return
only http mirrors (precisely to avoid firewall issues). No I'm completely confused.

Manuel.