distfile downloads failing on https

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 28, 2018, at 01:12, Jan Stary wrote:

> Back to the original problem: using depends_fetch is not a solution
> to downloads of tar.gz failing on some https sites, right? Because
> whatever the port adds to depends_fetch, the https fetching will
> still be done with the (lib)curl macports was built with, right?

Right.

The solution is for me to implement distfile mirroring on our server. Our CDN is accessible via http or https.