Hello Michael,

I do not see the benefit in doing so. In functions.pl, just a few lines
above, it says:

	$proto = "HTTP" unless $proto;

Of course, we will mostly see HTTP and a few HTTPS mirrors here, but
that leaves other protocols (FTP???) possible, thereof, I did not
strictly checked if only one of these protocols is set.

Does that make sense to you?

Best regards,
Peter Müller

> Hello,
> 
> would it not be a good idea to check if $proto is either HTTP or HTTPS?
> 
> -Michael
> 
> On Sat, 2018-03-24 at 16:22 +0100, Peter Müller wrote:
> > For each mirror server, a protocol can be specified in the
> > server-list.db database. However, it was not used for the
> > actual URL query to a mirror before.
> > 
> > This might be useful for deploy HTTPS pinning for Pakfire.
> > If a mirror is known to support HTTPS, all queries to it
> > will be made with this protocol.
> > 
> > This saves some overhead if HTTPS is enforced on a mirror
> > via 301 redirects. To enable this, the server-list.db
> > needs to be adjusted.
> > 
> > Partially fixes #11661.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)link38.eu>
> > Cc: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org>
> > ---
> >  src/pakfire/lib/functions.pl | 5 ++++-
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/pakfire/lib/functions.pl b/src/pakfire/lib/functions.pl
> > index c97d4254d..94f9f1826 100644
> > --- a/src/pakfire/lib/functions.pl
> > +++ b/src/pakfire/lib/functions.pl
> > @@ -171,8 +171,11 @@ sub fetchfile {
> >  			}
> >  		}
> >  
> > +		# Use specified protocol for mirror communication (allows
> > HTTPS pinning)
> > +		my $urlproto = lc $proto;
> > +
> >  		$final_data = undef;
> > -	 	my $url = "http://$host/$file";
> > +	 	my $url = "$urlproto://$host/$file";
> >  		my $response;
> >  		
> >  		unless ($bfile =~ /^counter.py\?.*/) {