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From: Mark Geisert <mark@maxrnd.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: SSL not required for setup.exe download
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 05:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3132c0de-2689-a270-b996-d309017ca815@maxrnd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41f12842-ea43-ff63-a660-26ee3b497c63@SystematicSw.ab.ca>

Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2019-03-10 10:40, Archie Cobbs wrote:
[...]
>> In any case, the problem I'm talking about is trivial to verify. Just
>> start up Chrome or Firefox and enter http://www.cygwin.com. You can
>> then confirm that (a) the page you are looking at has an http:// URL,
>> and (b) the link to setup.exe also has an http:// URL. Therefore,
>> there is no real security in this scenario.
>
> I only get to see https://www.cygwin.com/ YMMV

FWIW, I can reproduce the OP's STC using Chrome, Firefox, and Pale Moon.  Not 
sure why it happens for some folks but not others.  But since it does exist for 
some users, should it be dealt with?

..mark


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-11  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-10  4:54 Archie Cobbs
2019-03-10 13:35 ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-10 16:35   ` Archie Cobbs
2019-03-10 14:16 ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-10 16:40   ` Archie Cobbs
2019-03-11  3:51     ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-11  5:16       ` Mark Geisert [this message]
2019-03-11 11:50         ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-11 13:13         ` SSL should not be " L A Walsh
2019-03-11 13:44       ` SSL not " Archie Cobbs
2019-03-11 19:42         ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-11 22:14           ` Archie Cobbs
2019-03-11 22:59             ` Lee
2019-03-12 13:47               ` Archie Cobbs
2019-03-12 14:31                 ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-12 14:58                   ` Archie Cobbs
2019-03-15 12:25                     ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-28 18:13                       ` Erik Soderquist
2019-03-12 19:21                 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-12 19:59                 ` Lee
2019-03-12  0:20             ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-12 19:45               ` Lee
2019-03-12 20:35                 ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-12 21:14                   ` Lee
2019-03-12 21:35                     ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-12 22:01                       ` Lee
2019-03-12 20:42                 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-12 21:32                   ` Lee
2019-03-12 21:35                 ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-12 21:50                   ` Lee
2019-03-13 20:50                     ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-11 20:24         ` SSL should not be required for open source downloading L A Walsh
2019-03-10 14:16 ` SSL not required for setup.exe download Brian Inglis
2019-03-10 23:20   ` L A Walsh
2019-03-11  3:53     ` Archie Cobbs
2019-03-11 13:13       ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-11 13:22       ` L A Walsh
2019-03-11 13:39         ` L A Walsh

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