From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27096 invoked by alias); 11 Mar 2019 13:13:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 26982 invoked by uid 89); 11 Mar 2019 13:13:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=HX-Languages-Length:1026 X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.138) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:13:43 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id 3KkOh4WjexI393KkPhRbTQ; Mon, 11 Mar 2019 07:13:41 -0600 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: SSL not required for setup.exe download To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5C859BB7.4040900@tlinx.org> From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <35afcb0a-7494-9d13-02f3-b3d21f33e810@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:13:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-03/txt/msg00247.txt.bz2 On 2019-03-10 21:53, Archie Cobbs wrote: > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 6:20 PM L A Walsh wrote: >>>> It would be safer if http://www.cygwin.com always redirected you to >>>> https://www.cygwin.com, where the page and the link are SSL. >>>> Is there any reason not to force this redirect and close this security hole? >> >> I think the point is that if you redirect and a client can't >> speak https, what happens? Wouldn't they get an error that would >> prevent them from using the site? > > I guess so. Can you name any such client? Dillo and likely others on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_lightweight_web_browsers and clients for RTEMS and other embedded platforms supported by newlib, musl, and similar libraries, that are too limited to support TLS, HTTPS, etc. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple