[PATCH] Prefer https: for GNU and FSF URLs

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

Hi Paul,

> The attached patches adjust glibc to prefer https: in URLs for gnu.org and
> fsf.org. FTP is being decommissioned soon for gnu.org, and although the GNU
> project files are not secret, plain HTTP is vulnerable to malicious routers
> that intercept responses from GNU servers, and this sort of thing is all too
> common when people in some other countries browse US-based websites.

 What's wrong with FTP, especially as given what you have stated it seems 
useful for people beyond myself, and not merely (as it is in my case) for 
convenience reasons?

  Maciej