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Re: [COMMITTED] Prefer https for Sourceware links
- From: Rical Jasan <ricaljasan at pacific dot net>
- To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:37:01 -0800
- Subject: Re: [COMMITTED] Prefer https for Sourceware links
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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