>From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
>Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 3:35 AM
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS
>
>On May 22 00:29, Brian Clifton wrote:
>> >On Apr 24 17:18, Brian Clifton wrote:
>> >> Hi folks,
>> >> 
>> >> I have a proposed change for the web site. This patch (see below) will update most of the urls to HTTPS. In many cases there was a redirect; for those I captured the new canonical address.
>> >> 
>> >> (Per the https://cygwin.com/contrib.html, this is *not* a change to 
>> >> anything in the winsup directory, which is why I chose the 
>> >> cygwin@cygwin distro)
>> >> 
>> >> The patch can be found here:
>> >> https://patch.clifton.io/cygwin/cygwin-htdocs_bsclifton_https_20160
>> >> 424
>> >> .patch
>> >
>> >Thanks for the patch, but, here's a question:
>> >
>> >Since Cygwin.com redirects http requests to https anyway, all links to cygwin.com (or, FWIW, sourceware.org) will end up as https requests anyway.
>> >
>> >Having said that, wouldn't it make sense then to avoid absolute links to cygwin.com and rather convert them to relative links, i.e.:
>> >
>>   >-<a href="http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg02182.html">Inspired</a> by
>>   >+<a href="/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg02182.html">Inspired</a> by
>> >
>> >?
>> >
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Corinna
>> 
>> Good points Corinna; I updated the patch to use relative URLs (attached). If the attachment does not work for some reason, it can also be downloaded from here:
>> https://patch.clifton.io/cygwin/cygwin-htdocs_bsclifton_https_20160521
>> .patch
>
>Thanks for doing that, but this patch can't apply.  Please note that the cygwin-api, cygwin-ug-net, and faq subdirs are maintained as part of the cygwin repo itself and are in XML, not in HTML.  Only the generic stuff is maintained in the htdocs repo.
>
>On second thought, using relative paths inside the Cygwin docs (cygwin-api, cygwin-ug-net, and faq) is not such a bright idea, because the docs should ideally work even if not on the cygwin.com website.
>Sorry about that, but I didn't notice that your patch also changes the Cygwin docs :}
>
>Can you please split up the patch in two chunks?
>
>The generic website patches should be based on the Website git repo at
>
>  git://sourceware.org/git/cygwin-htdocs.git
>
>the Cygwin docs patches on the Cygwin git repo at
>
>  git://sourceware.org/git/newlib-cygwin.git.
>
>The docs XML files are in the winsup/doc subdir.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Corinna
>

Apologies for not responding sooner- attached is a patch for only the htdocs repo. I'll look at updating the docs next :)

Thanks
Brian