From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 44331 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2017 09:30:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 44062 invoked by uid 89); 16 Nov 2017 09:30:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KB_WAM_FROM_NAME_SINGLEWORD,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:706, understanding, website, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: smtp.pacific.net Subject: Re: [COMMITTED] Prefer https for Sourceware links To: Siddhesh Poyarekar References: <1510814241-549-1-git-send-email-siddhesh@sourceware.org> Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org From: Rical Jasan Message-ID: <4a00a0f1-fde9-84b3-b4bf-5234b4ac8449@pacific.net> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 09:30:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1510814241-549-1-git-send-email-siddhesh@sourceware.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2017-11/txt/msg00565.txt.bz2 On 11/15/2017 10:37 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > Update all sourceware links to https. The website redirects > everything to https anyway so let the web server do a bit less work. Thank you. www.gnu.org does the same, which I noticed wasn't touched. Are there plans to update those URLs at some point? From some related discussion on bug-standards, my understanding is that this type of change was acceptable, with some concerns about ensuring all the involved webservers support HTTPS. [1,2] Rical [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2017-10/msg00002.html [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2017-10/msg00005.html