misc/49765: Official ftp mirror not supporting wildcard over http

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>Number:         49765
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Official ftp mirror not supporting wildcard over http
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 20 10:50:00 +0000 2015
>Originator:     Jussi Toivonen
>Release:        6.1.5
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD Unzan 6.1.5 NetBSD 6.1.5 (GENERIC) i386
>Description:
Host not found errors when trying to install packages from ftp.NetBSD.org during installation step "Enable installation of binary packages" or during normal usage of pkg_add with PKG_PATH set to "http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/6.1.5/All";. If the "http://"; is explicitly replaced with "ftp://";, installing works, but that is bad practice.

The problem seemingly stems from the wildcard character * not being supprted over http. The client attempts to find <package name>* where the * is the version number of the package, but can only find it if connected to the server through ftp://
>How-To-Repeat:
1. Boot the installation media for NetBSD 6.1.5 i386
2. Install as normal until
3. Attempt to enable installation of binary packages.

OR

# export PKG_PATH="http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/6.1.5/All";
# pkg_add <any program>
>Fix:
Enable wildcard globbing over http in the official ftp server.