[mesh-dev] Lack of HTTPS support in OpenWrt

[Mitar]

Hi!

> In that case, it would be trivial to copy the final product to an
> https secured site for authenticated download.

But you cannot download an image to your running OpenWrt installation
over HTTPS. At least not with default packages. There is no small/thin
wget with HTTPS support. You can get I think curl with HTTPS, but it
adds quite a bit of dependencies.


Mitar

> 
> It is a good question why openwrt is serving all of their firmware
> downloads over http. It seems like most of these sorts of issues are just a
> lack of developer hours/resources? I'd imagine that sudomesh would sign on
> to a request (and maybe even pitch in some $$) if we thought it could get
> that fixed....
> 
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> For me it seems that lack of HTTPS support in OpenWrt is really
>> problematic. So all packages installation from official repositories go
>> over HTTP, if I am not mistaken. Does anyone know why this is not
>> something which bothers more people? :-)
>>
>>
>> Mitar
>>
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