Comment on Setting up a new Mac for developmentparentComments−tuananh12yit's bad practice : yes but the source is there on github. you can always take a look. what is there to be afraid of.−ultimoo12yThe first URL isn't https. A rogue router anywhere from your building or your ISP to the server's building could potentially tamper with a plain text http response, which would then be evaluated by your shell.−tuananh12ywell i was talking about homebrew. it uses https. ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"−btgeekboy12yOn a non-github platform, it would be trivial to serve different content if the user agent was curl or wget.
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it's bad practice : yes but the source is there on github. you can always take a look. what is there to be afraid of.
The first URL isn't https. A rogue router anywhere from your building or your ISP to the server's building could potentially tamper with a plain text http response, which would then be evaluated by your shell.
well i was talking about homebrew. it uses https.
On a non-github platform, it would be trivial to serve different content if the user agent was curl or wget.