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I use it from time to time to download ISOs or source tarballs. It's handy not to have to use an external program for that.

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I never seen a distro that didn't have a http mirror for those things myself. Even the ones that offer ftp.debian.org for example are accessibly over http as well.

Agreed. I can’t think of the last time I had to use FTP.

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