[rhn-users] A question about RHN XMLRPC: Does RHN use HTTPS, not HTTP, to transmit big .rpm packages?

[Clifford Perry]

Bo Xie wrote:
> I use yum+rhnplugin on RHEL5 i386 to download bridge-utils, and I
> observer that the download URL is
> https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLPRC/GET-REQ/rhel-i386-server-5/getpackage/bridge-utils-1.1-2.i386.rpm. 
>
>
> My questions is: Does RHN use HTTPS, not HTTP, to transmit big .rpm 
> packages?
Yes, if you use https within your configuration (which is by default).

Cliff.


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