Is http://security/ubuntu.com down?

[Jim]

On 07/03/2018 04:01 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 03.07.2018, 22:45 +0200 schrieb Liam Proven:
>> On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 at 21:53, Jim <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hadn't used my notebook running Mint 18 for a while so there were a
>>> ton
>>> of updates. Most of them finished fine. Then I started getting
>>> errors
>>> like
>>> http://security.ubuntu.com/
> ...
>>> 404 not found
> ...
>> Odd. Try changing mirror servers
> 
> security.ubuntu.com has no mirrors (for obvious reasons) ...
> 
> i'd try an "apt update" to make sure the Packages files are up to date
> ...
> 
> ciao
> 	oli
> 
> 
> 
Thanks, oli

That worked, they are downloading now.

Curious  why is it http instead of https in the url?

Regards,  Jim