[clamav-users] Why virus definition DB download url is not https?

[Micah Snyder (micasnyd)]

Freshclam in ClamAV 0.102 will use https by default and will NOT fall back to http.  If you need to use http, you can change the DatabaseMirror option in freshclam.conf to "http://database.clamav.net" and that will force it to use http.  I agree that surprises aren't always funny, which is why there is no automatic fallback. 

Micah

On 12/12/19, 5:39 PM, "clamav-users on behalf of Gene Heskett via clamav-users" <clamav-users-bounces at lists.clamav.net on behalf of clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:

    On Thursday 12 December 2019 17:15:01 Joel Esler (jesler) via 
    clamav-users wrote:
    
    > They are served over https. But only 102.x supports https.  So as soon
    > as everyone moves to https, I’ll gladly decommission http.
    >
    Does freshclam support both, if so, how do we force it to https?  
    Surprises aren't always funny.
    
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