Feature #36688

open

Provide option to use wget for the new Register Host feature

Added by Markus Reisner 9 months ago. Updated about 1 month ago.

Status:

Ready For Testing

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Category:

Host registration

Target version:

Difficulty:

Triaged:

Bugzilla link:

Pull request:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/9808, https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-documentation/pull/2376, https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-documentation/pull/2914

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Description

Current state¶

The Register hosts page uses curl for registering hosts. This seems to be a good approach for EL based systems as most of these come with curl preinstalled. On Debian based systems this is not always the case (at least for recent versions of Debian and Ubuntu).

Proposal¶

This feature request aims to provide an option to use wget for registering hosts as wget is as widely used as curl. By this system administrators that only have wget installed are not forced to also install curl anymore.